Author: Bengal (India)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bengal (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Report on Condition of the Lower Classes of Population in Bengal
Author: Bengal (India)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bengal (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bengal (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Coolies, Capital and Colonialism
Author: Rana P. Behal
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521699747
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Endogamy, the custom forbidding marriage outside one's social class, is central to social history. This study considers the factors determining who married whom, whether partner selection changed over the past three hundred years and regional differences between Europe and South America.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521699747
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Endogamy, the custom forbidding marriage outside one's social class, is central to social history. This study considers the factors determining who married whom, whether partner selection changed over the past three hundred years and regional differences between Europe and South America.
The Rise and Decline of the Male Breadwinner Family?
Author: Angélique Janssens
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521639668
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
The essays look at the origins and expansion of different patterns of breadwinning.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521639668
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
The essays look at the origins and expansion of different patterns of breadwinning.
Culinary Culture in Colonial India
Author: Utsa Ray
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316222675
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
This book utilizes cuisine to understand the construction of the colonial middle class in Bengal who indigenized new culinary experiences as a result of colonial modernity. This process of indigenization developed certain social practices, including imagination of the act of cooking as a classic feminine act and the domestic kitchen as a sacred space. The process of indigenization was an aesthetic choice that was imbricated in the upper caste and patriarchal agenda of the middle-class social reform. However, in these acts of imagination, there were important elements of continuity from the pre-colonial times. The book establishes the fact that Bengali cuisine cannot be labeled as indigenist although it never became widely commercialized. The point was to cosmopolitanize the domestic and yet keep its tag of 'Bengaliness'. The resultant cuisine was hybrid, in many senses like its makers.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316222675
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
This book utilizes cuisine to understand the construction of the colonial middle class in Bengal who indigenized new culinary experiences as a result of colonial modernity. This process of indigenization developed certain social practices, including imagination of the act of cooking as a classic feminine act and the domestic kitchen as a sacred space. The process of indigenization was an aesthetic choice that was imbricated in the upper caste and patriarchal agenda of the middle-class social reform. However, in these acts of imagination, there were important elements of continuity from the pre-colonial times. The book establishes the fact that Bengali cuisine cannot be labeled as indigenist although it never became widely commercialized. The point was to cosmopolitanize the domestic and yet keep its tag of 'Bengaliness'. The resultant cuisine was hybrid, in many senses like its makers.
Report on the Material Condition of Small Agriculturists and Labourers in Gaya
Author: Charles James Stevenson-Moore
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
A Century of Protests
Author: Arupjyoti Saikia
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317325591
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Addressing an important gap in the historiography of modern Assam, this book traces the relatively unexplored but profound transformations in the agrarian landscape of late- and post-colonial Assam that were instrumental in the making of modern Assamese peasantry and rural politics. It discusses the changing relations between various sections of peasantry, state, landed gentry, and politics of different ideological hues — nationalist, communist and socialist — and shows how a primarily agrarian question concerning peasantry came to occupy the centre stage in the nationalist politics of the state. It will especially interest scholars of history, agrarian and peasant studies, sociology, and contemporary politics, as also those concerned with Northeast India.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317325591
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Addressing an important gap in the historiography of modern Assam, this book traces the relatively unexplored but profound transformations in the agrarian landscape of late- and post-colonial Assam that were instrumental in the making of modern Assamese peasantry and rural politics. It discusses the changing relations between various sections of peasantry, state, landed gentry, and politics of different ideological hues — nationalist, communist and socialist — and shows how a primarily agrarian question concerning peasantry came to occupy the centre stage in the nationalist politics of the state. It will especially interest scholars of history, agrarian and peasant studies, sociology, and contemporary politics, as also those concerned with Northeast India.
The Working Class in Bengal
Author: Deepika Basu
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Mapping the Path to Maturity
Author: Bipasha Raha
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135103412X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
This book delves into varied aspects of the history of Bengal and North east situated within a time frame of more than a hundred years, from the colonial times to the present. The individual essays deal with ideas, literary texts, politics, gender, industries, culture, health, sports and tribal issues relevant to these regions. Probing health issues in the colonial period the volume also explains the development of the modern coal industry on the one hand and the survival of the traditional potter’s craft on the other. The significance of traditional healing practices is dwelt upon as also the question of female health and dissemination of knowledge. The pen-picture of the happenings at the bathing ghat reveals the vibrant rural social life of the times. The modernization of the theatre gives a glimpse into the cultural ethos. The institutionalization of sports is examined. Analysis of contemporary cinema throws light on the perception of a woman’s position in society. As the reader travels from Bengal to the North-East, the impact of missionary activities on tribal life is revealed. The tribals’ search for identity is explored. The issues of peace, security and the interests of independent India are also dissected. This volume would be indispensable for scholars of literature, history, film studies, political science and contemporary studies in South Asia. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135103412X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
This book delves into varied aspects of the history of Bengal and North east situated within a time frame of more than a hundred years, from the colonial times to the present. The individual essays deal with ideas, literary texts, politics, gender, industries, culture, health, sports and tribal issues relevant to these regions. Probing health issues in the colonial period the volume also explains the development of the modern coal industry on the one hand and the survival of the traditional potter’s craft on the other. The significance of traditional healing practices is dwelt upon as also the question of female health and dissemination of knowledge. The pen-picture of the happenings at the bathing ghat reveals the vibrant rural social life of the times. The modernization of the theatre gives a glimpse into the cultural ethos. The institutionalization of sports is examined. Analysis of contemporary cinema throws light on the perception of a woman’s position in society. As the reader travels from Bengal to the North-East, the impact of missionary activities on tribal life is revealed. The tribals’ search for identity is explored. The issues of peace, security and the interests of independent India are also dissected. This volume would be indispensable for scholars of literature, history, film studies, political science and contemporary studies in South Asia. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka
Women and Labour in Late Colonial India
Author: Samita Sen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521453631
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Samita Sen's history of labouring women in Calcutta in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries considers how social constructions of gender shaped their lives. Dr Sen demonstrates how - in contrast to the experience of their male counterparts - the long-term trends in the Indian economy devalued women's labour, establishing patterns of urban migration and changing gender equations within the family. She relates these trends to the spread of dowry, enforced widowhood and child marriage. The book provides insight into the lives of poor urban women who were often perceived as prostitutes or social pariahs. Even trade unions refused to address their problems and they remained on the margins of organized political protest. The study will make a signficant contribution to the understanding of the social and economic history of colonial India and to notions of gender construction.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521453631
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 287
Book Description
Samita Sen's history of labouring women in Calcutta in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries considers how social constructions of gender shaped their lives. Dr Sen demonstrates how - in contrast to the experience of their male counterparts - the long-term trends in the Indian economy devalued women's labour, establishing patterns of urban migration and changing gender equations within the family. She relates these trends to the spread of dowry, enforced widowhood and child marriage. The book provides insight into the lives of poor urban women who were often perceived as prostitutes or social pariahs. Even trade unions refused to address their problems and they remained on the margins of organized political protest. The study will make a signficant contribution to the understanding of the social and economic history of colonial India and to notions of gender construction.
Colonialism in Action
Author: Debdas Banerjee
Publisher: Orient Blackswan
ISBN: 9788125016977
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The book provides an analysis of the historical origins of the problems of development as rooted firmly in the colonial trade and discusses the ways in which the rich-poor dichotomy was propogated and perpetuated.
Publisher: Orient Blackswan
ISBN: 9788125016977
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
The book provides an analysis of the historical origins of the problems of development as rooted firmly in the colonial trade and discusses the ways in which the rich-poor dichotomy was propogated and perpetuated.