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008			120629s2013 enkab b 001 0 eng
020			_a9781107030244 (hardback)
041			_aEng.
082	0	0	_a800 _2LAL
100	1		_aLal, Ruby. _99843
245	1	0	_aComing of age in nineteenth-century India : _bthe girl-child and the art of playfulness / _cRuby Lal.
260			_aCambridge, [England] ; _aNew York : _bCambridge University Press, _c2013.
300			_a229 p
520			_a"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	_aWomen _zIndia _xSocial life and customs _y19th century. _99844
650		0	_aGirls _zIndia _xSocial life and customs _y19th century. _99845
650		0	_aDomestic relations _zIndia _xHistory _y19th century. _99846
650		7	_aHISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia. _2bisacsh _91428
856	4	2	_3Cover image _uhttp://assets.cambridge.org/97811070/30244/cover/9781107030244.jpg
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