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Tanika Sarkar - Religion and Women in India, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

Religion and Women in India

Gender, Faith, and Politics, 1780s–1980s

Av Tanika Sarkar

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Examines the intersections of gender, religion, and politics among various Indian religious communities, from early British rule to the late twentieth century.2025 CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitleIn Religion and Women in India, Tanika Sarkar provides an account of gender prescriptions and proscriptions and their operation among various Indian religious communities, beginning with early British rule and concluding in the late twentieth century. Tracking various shifts and displacements in doctrinal thought and practice, she argues that Indian modernity was initiated largely through debates on gender, scripture, custom, and caste, which shaped ideal forms of masculine and feminine conduct. She demonstrates the organization of a modern public sphere around the controversies, cultural imaginaries, and political agitations over such issues as the age of consent, child marriage, widow remarriage, rape laws, and intercaste and interfaith relations. Gender norms are shown leaching into social attitudes, labor processes, and legal rights-leading eventually to modern Indian feminism. Closely analyzing the interpenetration and co-constitution of religion, politics, and gender in India, while also comparing parallel developments in Pakistan and Bangladesh, this pioneering work offers a brilliant and synthesizing account of the battles between orthodoxy and its opponents over two hundred years. No historian, no feminist, no student of politics can afford to miss it.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2025-02-02
  • Mått: 152 x 229 x 25 mm
  • Vikt: 526 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 404
  • Förlag: State University of New York Press
  • ISBN: 9798855800272
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Tanika Sarkar's internationally recognized histories have focused on the interface of religion, politics, and women. Her many books include Hindu Wife, Hindu Nation: Community, Religion and Cultural Nationalism; Rebels, Wives, Saints: Designing Selves and Nations in Colonial Times; and Hindu Nationalism in India. She has been Professor of History at Jawaharlal Nehru University, and Visiting Professor at Yale University, the University of Chicago, and the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. She taught for many years at St. Stephen's College, Delhi, and now teaches at Ashoka University.

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"…Religion and Women in India is a triumphant synthesis of several vast bodies of work. It places many of the 'classic' works in the field—some of which were written by Sarkar herself—alongside the more recent scholarship at the cutting edge of research in South Asian studies. Specialists in South Asian history will undoubtedly find this book an invaluable synthesis of so many works, stories, themes, and scholarly turns all in one place … This is ultimately a book that can and should receive wide readership and be held in high esteem." — H-Net Reviews (H-Asia)"This book is required reading for anyone interested in modern South Asian history, politics, economics, religion, and culture … Capacious in its historical ambitions, nuanced in its theoretical approaches, and relentless in its insistence that gender must be part of any account of history, this book will capture a wide audience." — CHOICE

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