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100			_aSarkar, Tanika
245			_aReligion & Women in India: gender, faith and politics 1780s-1980s
260			_aRanikhet _bPermanent Black _c2024
300			_axvii, 385p. _bIncludes Index
520			_aIn this book Tanika Sarkar provides an account of gender prescriptions and proscriptions, as well as their operation among various Indian religious communities, beginning with early British rule and concluding in the late twentieth century. Tracking various shifts and displacements in doctrinal thought and practice, she argues that Indian modernity was initiated largely through debates on gender, scripture, custom, and caste, which shaped ideal forms of masculine and feminine conduct. She demonstrates the organisation of a modern public sphere around the controversies, cultural imaginaries, and political agitations over such issues as the age of consent, child marriage, widow remarriage, rape laws, and intercaste and interfaith relations. Gender norms are shown leaching into social attitudes, labour processes, and legal rights – leading eventually to modern Indian feminism.
650			_aHindu women India History _9748175
650			_aPhilosophy
650			_aWomen and religion _9748176
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