United Kingdom. Cambridge University Press. 1996. Black and white photographic illustrations, xix + 289pp, very good in little worn dustjacket. In a compelling study of Indian women, Geraldine Forbes considers their recent history from the nineteenth century under colonial rule to the twentieth century after Independence. She begins with the..... More
United States: Oxford University Press Inc, 1994. Map, 214pp, glossary, bibliography, index, very good paperback copy. Several years ago in Rajasthan, an eighteen-year-old woman was burned on her husband's funeral pyre and thus became sati. Before ascending the pyre, she was expected to deliver both blessings and curses: blessings to..... More
Berkeley. University of California Press. 1998. 5 black and white illustrations, xiv + 246pp, index, bibliography, glossary, notes, remainder mark lower edge, prior owner's details half title, paperback, a very good copy. "Contentious Traditions" analyzes the debate on sati, or widow burning, in colonial India. Though the prohibition of widow..... More
New Delhi. SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd., 2012. Map, xxxi + 182pp, bibliography, index, a very good hardback copy in dustjacket. Even as they produce food for society and its people, lives dependent on agriculture are barely able to make ends meet. The cost of food production far outweighs the..... More
United Kingdom. Taylor & Francis Ltd., 1993. Black and white photographic illustrations, x + 153pp, index, paperback, a good copy. An essential addition to the postcolonial debate which offers a challenging mode of 'reading resistance' which destroys the stereotyped and sensationalised humanist image of the 'third world woman' as victim..... More
New Delhi. ABC Publishing House. 1985. ii + 161pp, appendix, bibliography, inscribed by the author front free endpaper, dustjacket shelf-rubbed. Foreword by Professor A.L. Basham. An analysis of the attitudes, actions and achievements of the three participants - the Christian missionaries, a group of Hindus, led by Raja Ram Mohan..... More
Delhi. Motilal Banarsidass. 1996. 301pp, bibliography, index, good hardback copy in dustjacket. Three newspaper clippings loosely inserted. Collection of eight essays which examine the lives and teachings of female saints throughout history. This book also examines general principles regarding the worship of Krishma and how such principles impact on the..... More
London. Tavistock. 1983. Maps, 226pp, glossary, indices, paperback, some underlining in both biro and pencil, neat name of a prior owner front free endpaper. "Based on fieldwork conducted by the author in two Indian villages, this book contains substantial new ethnographic material on the lives of rural Indian women, from..... More
