Ruby Lal

Coming of Age in Nineteenth-Century India

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Produktbeschreibung

In this eloquent history, Ruby Lal traces the lives of nineteenth-century Indian women in their transition from girlhood to maturity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. April 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 515g
• ISBN-13: 9781107030244
• ISBN-10: 1107030242
• Artikelnr.: 36617595

Autorenporträt

Ruby Lal is Associate Professor in the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies at Emory University. She has written extensively on women and gender relations in Islamic societies in the precolonial and colonial world. In addition to numerous academic articles and political commentaries, she is the author of Domesticity and Power in the Early Mughal World (Cambridge, 2005). She is currently finalizing a historical biography of the Mughal Empress Nur Jahan (forthcoming).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Texts, spaces, histories
2. The woman of the forest
3. The woman of the school
4. The woman of the household
5. The woman of the rooftops.