Rhetoric and Reality Gender and the Colonial Experience in South Asia

by Powell, Avril A.; Lambert-Hurley, Siobhan

• ISBN13: 9780195677041
• ISBN10: 0195677048
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-02-23
• Publisher: School of Oriental and African Studies

Summary

This collection of essays focuses on the relationship between ideas and practice, rhetoric and reality, with specific reference to gender in colonial India from about 1870 to the late 1930s.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements	vii
Introduction	1	(15)
Problematizing Discourse and Practice
Avril A. Powell and Siobhan Lambert-Hurley
1. Child, Mother, and Servant	16	(34)
Motherhood and Domestic Ideology in Colonial Bengal
Swapna M Banojee
2. Redesigning the Zenana	50	(32)
Domestic Education in Eastern Bengal in the Early Twentieth Century
Asha Islam Nayeem and Avril A. Powell
3. Questionable Motives, Flimsy Alibis	82	(39)
Reinvestigating the Murder of Female Infants in Colonial Punjab
Veena Talwar Oldenburg
4. The Body as a Metaphor for the Nation	121	(33)
Caste, Masculinity, and Femininity in the Satyarth Prakash of Swami Dayananda Sarasvati
Anshu Malhotra
5. Learning and Teaching about Birth Control	154	(69)
The Cautious Activism of Medical Missionaries in 1930's India
Ruth Compton Brouwer
6. 'Making and Moulding the Nursing of the Indian Empire' 185
Recasting Nurses in Colonial India
Rosemary Fitzgerald
7. Negotiating Modernities	223	(24)
The Public and Private Worlds of Dr Haimabati Sen
Geraldine Forbes
8. An Embassy of Equality?	247	(35)
Quaker Missionaries in Bhopal State, 1890-1930
Siobhan Lambert-Hurley
9. Islamic Modernism and Women's Status	282	(36)
The Influence of Syed Ameer Ali
Avril A. Powell
Notes on Contributors	318