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9780199408672

Widows and Daughters Gender, Kinship, and Power in South Asia

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  • ISBN13:

    9780199408672

  • ISBN10:

    019940867X

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2019-12-03
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press

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Author Biography


Anna Suvorova,Daniel Dynin

Anna Suvorova is the author of several books including Masnavi: A study of Urdu Romance (OUP, 2000), Muslim Saints of South Asia: The Eleventh to Fifteenth Century (London; New York: Routledge, 2004, paperback 2011), Early Urdu Theatre: Traditions and Transformations (Lahore: NCA Publications, 2009), Lahore: Topophilia of Space and Place (OUP, 2011), and Benazir Bhutto: A Multidimensional Portrait (OUP, 2015). Since 1972, she has worked at the Institute of Oriental Studies (Russian Academy of Sciences), currently as the Head of the Department of Asian Literatures. In 2009, she was conferred Sitara-i-Imtiaz by the President of Pakistan for her contribution to research of Pakistani Cultural Heritage.

Table of Contents


List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
1. Female Leaders: A Coincidence or the Rule?
2. Historical Roots and Cultural Context
3. Woman and Nation
4. Narratives and Stories
5. Widowed Mother
6. Daughter of the East
7. Daughter vs Widow
8. Daughter-Widow
9. Exception to the Rule: Sister
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index

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