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Women in India and Nepal / edited by Michael Allen and S.N. Mukherjee.

Title: Women in India and Nepal / edited by Michael Allen and S.N. Mukherjee.
Publication: Canberra : ANU, 1982.

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xiii, 297 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

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Australian National University monographs on South Asia ; no. 8

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Australian National University monographs on South Asia (Canberra, A.C.T.) ; no. 8.

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Contents

Hindu view of women / Michael Allen -- Blood, fire and mediation: Human sacrifice and widow burning in nineteenth century India / Elizabeth Leigh Stutchbury -- Caste and female pollution / Joyelyn Krygier -- Bhadramahilā and changing conjugal relations in Bengal, 1850-1900 / Meredith Borthwick -- Female intelligentsia in segregated society: Early twentieth century Bombay / Gail Pearson -- Raja Rammohun Roy and the debate on the status of women in Bengal / S.N. Mukherjee -- Girls' pre-puberty rites among the Newars of Kathmandu Valley / Michael Allen -- Chetri women in domestic groups and rituals / John Gray -- Triple goddess and the processual approach to the world: The Parbatya case / Vivienne Kondos.

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0908070071

OCLC

10878434

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Harvard Library