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020			_a9781107045910
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050	0	0	_aHQ1742 _b.L346 2013
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100	1		_aLal, Ruby.
245	1	0	_aComing of age in nineteenth-century India: the girl-child and the art of playfulness _cRuby Lal.
260			_aCambridge _aNew York _bCambridge University Press _c2013
300			_axvii, 229 p. : _bill., maps ; _c24 cm.
365			_e995.00
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 209-217) and index.
505	8		_aMachine generated contents note: 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.
520			_a"In this engaging and eloquent history, Ruby Lal traces the coming of age of nineteenth-century Indian women through a critique of narratives of linear transition from girlhood to womanhood. In the north Indian patriarchal environment, women's lives were dominated by the expectations of the male universal, articulated most clearly in household chores and domestic duties. The author argues that girls and women in the early nineteenth century experienced freedoms, eroticism, adventurousness and playfulness, even within restrictive circumstances. Although women in the colonial world of the later nineteenth century continued to be agential figures, their activities came to be constrained by more firmly entrenched domestic norms. Lal skilfully marks the subtle and complex alterations in the multifaceted female subject in a variety of nineteenth-century discourses, which are elaborated in four different sites - forest, school, household and rooftop"-- _cProvided by publisher.
650		0	_aWomen _zIndia _xSocial life and customs _y19th century.
650		0	_aGirls _zIndia _xSocial life and customs _y19th century.
650		0	_aDomestic relations _zIndia _xHistory _y19th century.
650		7	_aHISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia. _2bisacsh
856	4	2	_3Cover image _uhttp://assets.cambridge.org/97811070/30244/cover/9781107030244.jpg
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