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Gender, history, and culture : Inside the haveli

Title
Gender, history, and culture : Inside the haveli / edited by Supriya Agarwal, Urmil Talwar.
Publication
Jaipur : Rawat Publications, [2009], ©2009.

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Additional Authors
  • Agarwal, Supriya.
  • Talwar, Urmil.
Description
xvi, 238 pages; 22 cm
Summary
Contributed articles on a novel by Rama Mehta based on the culture and traditions of Rajasthan, India with special reference to women.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Context : lineages and history. Gender construction in Rajputana states / Pratibha Jain and Sangeeta Sharma ; Haveli: a living tradition / Ranbir Sinh ; Aesthetics of architecture and tradition / Divya Joshi ; The Rajput ethic and value transmission in the family / Raj Prabha -- Text : multiple frames. An ode to a vanishing age / Sarojini ; A community narrative / Supriya Agarwal ; Purdah culture on the portals of change / Nirja Misra ; Being and becoming: a process of frame displacement / Pooja Joshi ; A discourse on gender and class / Malashri Lal ; The tradition of women's writing / Shobba Shinde ; Patriarchy, gender and power / Sudha Rai ; The girl child on the threshold of the haveli / Mini Nanda ; The rationalization of purdah / Vrinda Nabar ; Negotiating gendered spaces / Bandana Chakrabarty ; Perspectives on self and space / Nidhi Singh ; Spatio-temporal dimensions / P.R. Bhabad ; Fiction, ethnography or a mixed genre? / Jasbir Jain ; Paradox and irony in the haveli / Venkatramani -- Context : neighbouring discourses. Purdah in Salman Rushdie, Attia Hosain and Rama Mehta / Uma Parameswaran ; The divided self: a Princess remembers and Inside the haveli / Madhuri Chatterjee ; Between tradition and modernity: women in three Indian English novels / Preeti Bhatt ; Veiled worlds and unveiled realities: Inside the haveli and Unveiling India / Jessy Mani.
ISBN
  • 8131602478
  • 9788131602478
LCCN
2008319887
OCLC
  • ocn286442662
  • 286442662
  • SCSB-5484047
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