Coming of age in nineteenth-century India : (Record no. 3827)
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| fixed length control field | 01852cam a2200229 a 4500 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER | |
| control field | ICES |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 120629s2013 enkab b 001 0 eng |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9781107030244 (hardback) |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | English |
| 082 00 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 800 |
| Edition number | LAL |
| 100 1# - PERSONAL NAME (AUTHOR) | |
| Personal name | Lal, Ruby. |
| 9 (RLIN) | 9843 |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Coming of age in nineteenth-century India : |
| Remainder of title | the girl-child and the art of playfulness / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | Ruby Lal. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc | Cambridge, [England] ; |
| -- | New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc | Cambridge University Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc | 2013. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 229 p |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | "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"-- |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Women |
| Geographic subdivision | India |
| General subdivision | Social life and customs |
| Chronological subdivision | 19th century. |
| 9 (RLIN) | 9844 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Girls |
| Geographic subdivision | India |
| General subdivision | Social life and customs |
| Chronological subdivision | 19th century. |
| 9 (RLIN) | 9845 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Domestic relations |
| Geographic subdivision | India |
| General subdivision | History |
| Chronological subdivision | 19th century. |
| 9 (RLIN) | 9846 |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia. |
| Source of heading or term | bisacsh |
| 9 (RLIN) | 1428 |
| 856 42 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Materials specified | Cover image |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://assets.cambridge.org/97811070/30244/cover/9781107030244.jpg |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Source of classification or shelving scheme | Other/Generic Classification Scheme |
| Koha item type | Reference Books |
| Withdrawn status | Lost status | Source of classification or shelving scheme | Damaged status | Not for loan | Collection code | Home library | Current library | Shelving location | Date acquired | Total Checkouts | Full call number | Barcode | Date last seen | Price effective from | Koha item type |
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| Other/Generic Classification Scheme | General Book Collections | ICES Colombo | ICES Colombo | Lending and Reference Section | 2018-03-27 | 800LAL | 007478 | 2018-03-27 | 2018-03-27 | Reference Books |