Recasting Women: Essays in Colonial History

Contents: 1. Recasting Women : An Introduction/Kumkum Sangari and Sudesh Vaid. 2. Whatever Happened to the Vedic Dasi? Orientalism, Nationalism and the Script for the Past/Uma Chakravarti. 3. Contentious Traditions: The Debate on Sati in Colonial India/Lata Mani. 4. Marginalization of Women's Popular Culture in Nineteenth Century Bengal/Sumanta Banerjee. 5. That Magic Time: Women in the Telangana People's Struggle/Vasantha Kannabiran and K. Lalitha. 6. Feminist Consciousness in Women's Journals in Hindi: 1910 – 1020/Vir Bharat Talwar. 7. The Nationalist Resolution of the Women's Question/Partha Chatterjee. 8. Tracing Savitri’s Pedigree: Victorian Racism and the Image of Women in Indo-Anglian Literature/Susie Tharu. 9. Working Women in Colonial Bengal: Modernization and Marginalization/Nirmala Banerjee. 10. Customs in a Peasant Economy: Women in Colonial Haryana/Prem Chowdhary. 11. Rural Women in Oudh 1917-1947: Baba Ram Chandra and the Women's Question/Kapil Kumar.

In this landmark collection on colonial history, Kumkum Sangari and Sudesh Vaid bring together some of India’s leading historians and feminist theorists to examine the impact of patriarchy on women’s daily lives during the colonial period, specifically in relation to caste and class.