Field: Women and Gender in Modern South Asia
Examiner: Haimanti Roy
GENERAL WORK ON MODERN SOUTH ASIA
Forbes, Geraldine. Women in Modern India
Nair, Janaki and M.E. John (eds.) A Question of Silence: Sexual Economies in Modern India
Ramusack Barbara and Sharon Sievers (eds.) Women in Asia
Sangari, Kumkum and Sudesh Vaid (eds.) Recasting Women
Sarkar, Sumit and Tanika Sarkar. Women and Social Reform: A Reader.
Ray, Bharati (ed.) From the Seams of History: Essays on Indian Women
Uberoi, Patricia (ed.) Social Reform, Sexuality and the State. New Delhi: Sage, 1996.
THEORETICAL WORKS
Mohanty, Chandra. “Under Western Eyes: Feminism Scholarship and Colonial Discourses,” in Third
World Women and the Politics of Feminism
Powell, Avril and Lambert-Hurley, S, eds. (2005) Rhetoric and Reality: Gender and the Colonial
Experience in South Asia. Delhi: Oxford University Press (Delhi).
Scott, Joan. “Gender: A Useful Category of Analysis,” in American Historical Review, Vol. 91, No. 5
(Dec 1986), 1053-1075.
------ Gender and History
Sinha, Mrinalini. “How History Matters: Complicating the Categories of ‘Western’ and ‘Nonwestern’ Feminisms,” in Is Academic Feminism Dead? Theory in Practice
Sreenivas, Mytheli. “Emotion, Identity and the Female Subject,” in the Journal of Women’s Studies,
Winter 2003, Vol. 14, Issue 4.
GENDER IN EARLY MODERN SOUTH ASIA
Chatterjee, Indrani. “Colouring Subalternity: Slaves, concubines and social orphans in early colonial
India,” in Subaltern Studies X
--------- Gender, Slavery and Law in Colonial India.
Kozlowski, Gregory. “Private Lives and Public Piety: Women and the Practice of Islam in Mughal
India,” in Women in the Medeival Islamic World. G. Hambly (ed.)
Lal, Ruby. Domesticity in the Early Mughal World
Talbot, Cynthia. “Rudrama-devi, the Female King: Gender and Political Authority in Medieval
India,” in Syllables of sky: Studies in South Indian civilization, David Shullman, ed.
WOMEN: HOUSE, HOME, AND FAMILY
Bannerjee, Swapna M. Men, Women and Domestics: Articulating Middle-Class Identity in Colonial Bengal
Borthwick, Meredith. The Changing Role of Women in Bengal, 1849-1905
Chatterjee, Indrani (ed.) Unfamiliar Relations: Family and History in South Asia
Glushkova, Irina and Anne Feldhaus (eds.) House and Home in Maharashtra
Feldhaus, Anne. Images of Women in Maharashtran Society.
Ghosh, Durba. Sex and the Family in Colonial India: The Making of an Empire
Grewal, Inderpal. Home and Harem: Nation, Gender, Empire and the Cultures of Travel.
Joshi, Chitra. “Between Work and Domesticity: Gender and Household Strategies in Working
Class Families,” in Workers in the Informal Sector: Studies in Labour History, 1800-2000, Sabyasachi
Bhattacharya and Jan Lucassen, eds.
WOMEN AND LABOR IN COLONIAL INDIA
Chatterjee, Piya. A Time for Tea
Fernandes, Leela. Producing Workers: The Politics of Gender, Class, and Culture in the Calcutta Jute Mill
Kumar, Radha.“Family and the factory: Women in the Bombay cotton textile industry, 19191939,” in Women in Colonial India: Essays on Survival, Work and the State, edited by J. Krishnamurty
(Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1989), 133-162.
Sen, Samita. Women and Labour in Late Colonial India: The Bengal Jute Industry
WOMEN AND GENDER IN COLONIAL INDIA
Ahluwalia, Sanjam. Reproductive Restraints: Birth Control in India, 1877-1947
Amin, Sonia. The World of Muslim Women in Colonial Bengal, 1876-1939
Anagol, Padma. The Emergence of Feminism in India, 1850-1920
Chakravarti, Uma. Rewriting History: the Life and Times of Pandita Ramabai
Chandra, Sudhir. Enslaved Daughters: Colonialism, Law and Women’s Rights
Ghosh, Durba. “Who counts as ‘Native’?: Gender, Race and Subjectivity in Colonial India,” in the
Journal of Women’s History – Vol. 15, No. 4, Winter 2005
Guha, Ranajit. “Chandra’s Death,” in A Subaltern Studies Reader, 1986-1995.
Gupta, Charu. Sexuality, Obscenity, Community: Women, Muslims and the Hindu Public Sphere in Colonial
India.
Hodges, Sarah (ed.) Reproductive Health in India: History, Politics, and Controversies
Kosambi, Meera. Crossing Thresholds: Feminist Essays in Social History
Majumdar, Rochona. “Snehalata’s Death: Dowry and Women’s Agency in Colonial Bengal,” in
IESHR, 4 December 2004
Malhotra, Anshu. Gender, Caste and Religious Identities: Restructuring Class in Colonial Punjab.
Minault, Gail. Secluded Scholars: Women’s Education and the Muslim Social Reform in Colonial India.
Nair, Janaki. Women and Law in Colonial India: A Social History
O’Hanlon, Rosalind. A Comparison Between Men and Women
Oldenburg, Veena. Dowry Murder: The Imperial Origins of a Cultural Crime.
Ramusack, Barbara. “Embattled Advocates: The Debate over Birth Control in India 1920-1940,” in
the Journal of Women’s History, 1,2, 1989: 34-64
Sinha, Mrinalini. “Unravelling Masculinity and Rethinking Citizenship: A Comment,” in Representing
Masculinity, Male Citizenship in Modern Western Culture, S Dudink, Anna Clark and K Hagemann (eds.)
Yang, Anand. “Whose Sati: Widow Burning in Early 19th Century India,” in Expanding the Boundaries
of Women’s Histories: Essays on Women in the Third World, Cheryl Johnson Odim and Margaret Strobel
(eds.)
WOMEN AND EMPIRE
Burton, Antoinette. Burdens of History: British Feminists, Indian Women and Imperial Culture, 1865-1915
--------- Dwelling in the Archive: Women Writing House, Home and History in Late Colonial India
Levine, Philppa. Prostitution, Race and Politics: Policing Venereal Disease in the British Empire.
--------- (ed.) Gender and Empire
Haggis, Jane.”’Good wives and mothers’ or ‘dedicated workers’? Contradictions of domesticity in
the ‘mission of sisterhood,’ Travancore, south India,” in Maternities and Modernities: Colonial and Postcolonial experiences in Asia and the Pacific, Kalpana Ram and Margaret Jolly (eds.)
Ramusack, Barbara. “Cultural Missionaries, Maternal Imperialists and Feminist Allies,” in the
Women’s Studies International Forum, 13 (4) 1990: 309-321
Sinha, Mrinalini. Colonial Masculinity.
-------- Specters of Mother India: The Global Restructuring of an Empire
WOMEN, THE NATIONALIST MOVEMENT, AND PARTITION
Butalia, Urvashi. The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India
Chakravarty, Gargi. Coming out of Partition: Refugee Women of Bengal
Forbes, Geraldine. Votes for Women: The Demand for Women’s Franchise in India, 1917-1937,”
in Votes for Women, Vina Mazumdar (ed.)
Menon, Ritu and Kamla Bhasin. Borders and Boundaries: Women in India’s Partition
Patel, Sujata. “Construction and Reconstruction of Woman in Gandhi,” in EPW , 23, February,
1988: 377-87
Ramaswamy, Sumathi. “Virgin Mother, Beloved Other: The Erotics of Tamil Nationalism in
Colonial and Post-Colonial India,” in Signposts: Gender Issues in Post-Independence India, Rajeswari
Rajan (ed.)
Sarkar, Tanika. Hindu Wife, Hindu Nation: Community, Religion, and Cultural Nationalism
Visweswaran, Kamala. “Small Speeches, Subaltern Gender: Nationalist Ideology and its
historiography,” in Subaltern Studies IX, Amin and Chakraborty (eds.)
WOMEN IN POST-COLONIAL INDIA
Agnes, Flavia. “Women, Marriage and the Subordination of Rights,” in Subaltern Studies XI:
Community, Gender and Violence, Partha Chatterjee and Pradeep Jenanathan (eds.)
Benerjee, Nirmala. “Whatever Happened to the Dreams of Modernity? The Nehruvian Era and
Women’s Position,” in EPW, April 1998: 2-7.
Basu, Amrita.”Women’s Activism and the Vicissitudes of Hindu Nationalism,” in the Journal of
Women’s History, Winter 1999, Vol. 10, Issue 4
Kumar, Radha. “From Chipko to sati: The contemporary Indian women’s movement,” in The
Challenge of Local Feminisms, Amrita Basu (ed.)
Menon, Nivedita. Recovering Subversion: Feminist Politics Beyond the Law
Ray, Raka. Fields of Protest: Women’s Movements in India.
Sarkar, Tanika and Urvashi Butalia (eds.) Women and Right Wing Movements: Indian Experiences
Sen, Atreyee. Shiv Sena Women: Violence and Communalism in a Bombay Slum