Behind the Veil of Vice

by Ghosh, Anindita

• ISBN13: 9780230114265
• ISBN10: 0230114261
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-10-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Trade

Author Biography

ANINDITA GHOSH is Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Manchester. Her published work in the form of journal articles and contribution to edited volumes so far, focuses on the commercial vernacular book market in Bengal, and the social history of print in colonial India. Her monograph based on these themes is, Power in Print: Popular publishing and the Politics of Language and Culture in a Colonial Society, 1778-1905. Her present paper and the idea of the conference itself stem from a long-term interest in everyday resistance in the life of women, a topic that features partially in her monograph.

Table of Contents

Introduction * Small Acts of Rebellion: Women Tell Their Photographs--G. Forbes * The Litigious Widow: Inheritance Disputes in Colonial North India, 1875-1911--N. V. Prasad * Wicked Widows: Law and Faith in Nineteenth Century Public Sphere--T. Sarkar * Gender, Subalternity, and Silence: Recovering Convict Women's Experiences from Histories of Transportation, c. 1780-1857--C. Anderson * A World of Their Very Own: Religion, Pain, and Subversion in Bengali Homes in the Nineteenth Century--A. Ghosh * Subtle Subversions and Presumptuous Interventions: Reforming Women's Health in Bhopal State in the Early Twentieth Century--S. Lambert-Hurley * From the Symbolic to the Open: Women's Resistance in Colonial Maharashtra--P. Anagol