HIS 301.02: Indian Ocean World: Reference

Raman reflects on the various ways in which Indian women have developed and expressed their own feminist agenda.

v. 1. Early India. Region, environment, gender ; Vedic goddesses and women ; Mothers and wives in the Smriti texts ; Buddhist and Jaina nuns and laywomen ; Women in classical art and literature ; The divine feminine : Devis, Yoginis, Taras ; Queens, saints, courtesans -- v. 2. Later India. Muslim women in premodern India ; Women in the colonial era ; Male reformers and women’s rights ; Feminists and nationalists ; Conclusion : women in India today.

With 600 signed, alphabetically organized articles covering the entirety of folklore in South Asia, this new resource includes countries and regions, ethnic groups, religious concepts and practices, artistic genres, holidays and traditions, and many other concepts.
A preface introduces the material, while a comprehensive index, cross-references, and black and white illustrations round out the work. The focus on south Asia includes Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, with short survey articles on Tibet, Bhutan, Sikkim, and various diaspora communities.

With fascinating entries on sociological and social anthropological research in India, this volume presents a wealth of information, including developments in the field, important empirical work, and its contributions to sociology as a whole. It will appeal to all sociology students, as well
as to anyone with a broad interest in Asian studies.

Introduction : the world shaped by empire ; The British Empire at the end of the eighteenth century ; 1783-1870 : an expanding empire ; 1870-1918 : the empire under threat ; 1918 to the 1960s : keeping afloat / P.J. Marshall -- For richer, for poorer? / David Fieldhouse -- Power, authority, and freedom / A.J. Stockwell -- Empires in the mind / Andrew Porter -- Imperial towns and cities / Thomas R. Metcalf -- British emigration and new identities / Ged Martin and Benjamin E. Kline -- The diaspora of the Africans and the Asians / P.J. Marshall -- Art and the empire / John M. MacKenzie -- Imperial Britain / P.J. Marshall -- Australia / K.S. Inglis -- Africa / Toyin Falola -- British rule in India : an assessment / Tapan Raychaudhuri -- Conclusion : empire in retrospect / P.J. Marshall.