Research Catalog

Title

Gender, caste, and religious identities : restructuring class in colonial Punjab / Anshu Malhotra.

Author

Malhotra, Anshu

Publication

New Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.

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Details

Description

x, 231 pages; 22 cm

Summary

• This study on the interplay of gender, caste, and religious identities in colonial Punjab, focuses on the middle-classes. It shows how gender and caste norms were used to counter the erosion of economic advantages.
• This text studies the interplay of gender, caste, and religious identities in colonial Punjab, focusing on the middle class. It shows how gender and caste norms were used to counter the erosion of economic advantages, and the subservience of its institutions under colonialism.

Subject

• Geschichte 1850-1947
• Women > India > Punjab > Social conditions
• Women > Religious life > India > Punjab
• Caste > India > Punjab > History
• Femmes > Inde > Pendjab > Conditions sociales
• Femmes > Vie religieuse > Inde > Pendjab
• Castes > Inde > Pendjab > Histoire
• Caste
• Women > Religious life
• Women > Social conditions
• Frau
• Soziale Rolle
• Karte
• Sekseverschillen
• Kastenstelsel
• Sociale klassen
• Punjab (India) > Social conditions
• Punjab (India) > Religion
• India > History > British occupation, 1765-1947
• India > Punjab
• Pandschab

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-219) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Gender, caste, and religious identities in Punjab -- 'Killing', 'gifting' or 'selling' daughters : the pressures on a high caste identity -- Ascetic widowhood or widow remarriage? : Dilemma for the new Punjab elite -- Controlling women : recreating the Pativrata wife as the ideal upper caste woman -- Powerful women -- fearful men : reforming women's popular culture.

ISBN

• 0195656482
• 9780195656480

LCCN

2002301095

OCLC

• 50004538
• SCSB-12400251

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library