Hisa 3121 women and power in indian history spring’15

HISA 3121 WOMEN AND POWER IN INDIAN HISTORY Spring’15
Mr. Barnett Ofc. Nau Hall 384 Hours Thursdays 2:15-3:15, or by appt. 924-6396 [e-mail]
Purpose This course addresses women’s roles and statuses, means of gaining and using power, and contributions in political and other realms, during four millennia of South Asian history. With emphasis on the modern, but with relevant background in Indian mythology, classical history and literature, medieval Islamic chronicles, autobiographies, and eyewitness accounts, we will examine original sources, social science studies, fictional works, and secondary material on the following issues: √origins, persistence, and revision of socially and religiously constructed gender identities; √typologies of autonomy vs. dependence, security vs. risk, oppression vs. liberation; √medieval and modern women as political actors and exemplars; √female infanticide, self-immolation of widows, and bride-burning; √education, health and workplace; √ Western and Asian feminisms; and √women power brokers in what is now India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Bangladesh. No previous acquaintance with South Asia, or with history, is assumed.
Approach & Focus In this course we will read and write about, report on, and discuss topics concerning gender in South Asia, assessing the various ways in which subjects exercised power (or not) and—whether colludingly, unthinkingly, or defiantly—how they defined their roles in history.
Requirements Evaluation will rest on class discussion (30%), six-minute presentations on individually-assigned readings (20%), a book review (20%), and three quizzes (30%). No presentations may be postponed without either 24 hours’ advance notice or a life-changing emergency. Presenters will write a one-page outline of their oral presentations, copy it and distribute it to classmates. Signups for oral presentations and book reviews must be on my syllabus copy only, to avoid duplicate choices. (Write your name clearly on the LEFT margin of my syllabus copy to sign up) Written reviews to classmates are of books whose titles are at the end of this syllabus; tell me your choice, and sign up for this separate assignment on my syllabus, sooner than later. Readings for reports must be accessed ASAP ! ! !

Note: the purpose of both oral presentations and book reviews is to impart the content of more source materials, and hence information, to classmates. But your assessment and evaluation is just as important as conveying the author’s purpose, style, method, and degree of success. Both your 6-minute talk and your book review must be polished, edited, original, pledged contributions. The book reviews are due in hard copy to me on or before the last class day, and must be posted on the class web page in Collab, according to instructions from me beforehand (since Collab changes at times).

The importance of informed discussion This is not a lecture class, so don’t be passive. Class participation, analyzing and asking questions about the readings and presentations, is vital to the success of this course, so diligence in reading all assignments in advance is expected without exception. All are very strongly urged to read ahead of the topics. Do not send me panicked emails begging to know what the next readings are, as they will be evident from the syllabus. Also, asking in an uninformed way about something that is clearly presented in the readings or reports will blatantly reveal what you have not done, and will reduce our level of comfort. (See the criteria for evaluating class participation in the graphic at the end of the syllabus.) I will call on a wide variety of classmates for purposes of equity, Construct a name flag, and keep it with you all semester. Class attendance is vitally important—for each unexcused absence beyond three, the course grade will be reduced by 20%.
Texts and assignments: The following are available from UVa Bookstore and on line:

Shahla Haeri, No Shame for the Sun: Lives of Professional Pakistani Women (Syracuse, 2002)

Elizabeth Bumiller, May You be the Mother of a Hundred Sons (New York & Delhi, 1990)

Geraldine Forbes, Women in Modern India (Cambr. Univ. Press,1998)

Farah Ahmedi, The Other Side of the Sky  (New York: Simon Spotlight Entertainment, 2005)

A required book of photocopies is on sale at Brillig Books, 7 Elliewood Ave., selections being cited below as “PH-COPY.” Its table of contents will guide you to the assignments. Some selections are more challenging than the ones in the textbooks, but they must be carefully studied and understood anyway.

Writing assignment (required, ungraded): write one double-spaced typed page on "My Image of South Asian Women." Be thoughtful and candid. Write essay before starting the readings. Due in class, on our second class day, at the beginning of class. Since I will read and mark for content and style, and return in class, this cannot be submitted via email. The point is to establish a baseline for your knowledge and awareness.
Background reading In case you feel somewhat at sea during the first few weeks of such a course, the following are very strongly recommended:
Barbara D. and Thomas R. Metcalf, A Concise History of India (2003)

Sugata Bose and Ayesha Jalal, Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy (1997, plus

several updated editions)

1. Introduction to the course, classmates, and instructor

Class reading:

Ashok K. Dutt, “India: A Geographic Preface,” in Neil DeVotta, ed., Understanding

Contemporary India, 2nd ed., 22-10. PH-COPY

Benjamin Cohen, “The Historical Context,” in DeVotta, ed., 31-65. PH-COPY

Bumiller, ch. 1, “Arrival & Introduction,” 3-23 Forbes, 1-9

In-class video: “Honor Diaries” (directed by Micah Smith, 2013), 61 minutes
2. An historical template; our first short story

Class reading:

Forbes, 10-31 Iyengar, “The Library Girl,” PH-COPY

Lisa Trivedi, “Women in India,” in DeVotta, ed., 181-208. PH-COPY
3. Gender roles, gender statuses: an introduction

Class reading:

Forbes, 32-63 Haeri, xxi-xxxi

4. Women in agrarian settings, part 1

Class reading:

Shama Futehally, “The Meeting,” pp. 136-143, in Lakshmi Holmstrom, ed.,

The Inner Courtyard PH-COPY

Haeri, chapter 4, “Legitimacy: in the Boots of a Feudal Lord,” pp. 169-225

In-class Video: “Dadi’s Family.” Dadi is the grandmother managing an extended farming famiy. Women in this film--whose dialogue has to be listened to with focused attention-- discuss family

conflict, work in the fields and at home, and the loneliness of being a stranger in the husband’s family. Items from this video and the earlier one will appear on at least one quiz.

5. Women in Early Indian History: Manu, Jha and the Golden Age, svayamvara, sati

Class reading:

Kirit K. Shah, The Problem of Identity: Women in Early Indian Inscriptions (OUP India,

2001), “Prologue,” pp. 1-31 PH-COPY

Uma Chakravrti, “Beyond the Altekarian Paradigm: Towards a New Understanding

Of Gender Relations in Early Indian History,” Social Scientist 16:8 (Aug. 1988)

pp. 44-51. To be distrubuted by email as a PDF by instructor.

Note: If at least three of the following are not selected, we cannot proceed.
Report Laurie L. Patton, ed., Jewels of Authority (OUP, 2002), Introduction and chapters 1 & 4.

Report Moti Chandra, The World of Courtesans. DS421 .C435 (ALD-STKS) Omit ch. 9.

Report Vatsyayana, The Kama Sutra, Book One only. HQ470.S3 V3 1967

Report S. Tharu and K. Lalita, eds., Women Writing in India, vol. 1 pp. 41-56, 65-89

PK 2978 .E5 W57 1991

6. Heroine-ism & Public Rituals in Medieval & Early Modern India, part 1

Class reading

Intro and two chapters in Gavin Hambly, ed., Women in the Medeival Islamic World:

Power, Patronage and Piety (New York: St. Martin’s, 1998): ALL IN PH-COPY:

G. Hambly, “Becoming Visible: Medieval Islamic Women in Historiography and

History,” pp. 2-27

Stephen P. Blake, “Contributors to the Urban Landscape: Women Builders in

Safavid Isfahan and Mughal Shahjahanabad,” pp. 407-428

G. Hambly, “Armed Women Retainers in the Zenanas of Indo-Muslim Rulers:

the Case of Bibi Fatima,” pp. 429-468;
Report I. H. Siddiqui, “Socio-Political Role of Women in the Sultanate of Delhi,” and

Kiran Pawar, “Role of Royal Women in the Career of Babur,” pp. 85-

110 in Kiran Pawar, ed., Women in Indian History: Social, Economic,

Political and Cultural Perspectives, HQ1742 .W6657 1996
Report Rumer Godden, Gulbadan: Portrait of a Rose Princess at the Mughal Court

DS461.9.G84 G62 1980

Report Ellison Banks Findly, Nur Jahan: Empress of Mughal India (OUP India, 2000

DS 461.9 .N8 F56 1993

Report K. Sadasivan, Devadasi System in Medieval Tamil Nadu BL 1237.58 D48 S23

1993
Report Ramya Sreenivasan, The Many Lives of a Rajput Queen: Heroic Pasts in India

c.1500-1900 (2007; with instructor)

7. Heroine-ism in Medieval & Early Modern India, part 2

Class reading

Richard B. Barnett, “Embattled Begams: Women as Power Brokers in Early Modern

India”, 521-36 in Gavin Hambly, ed. PH-COPY

Report Peter Jackson, “Sultan Radiyya bint Iltutmish,” in Hambly, ed. Women in the Medieval

Islamic World (New York: St. Martin’s, 1998), 181-198, AND Gregory C.

Kozlowski, “Private Lives and Public Piety,” Women and the Practice of Islam

in Mughal India,” in Hambly, ed., 469-488.
Report Ruby Lal, Domesticity and Power in the Early Mughal World (CUP, 2005)
Report Renuka Nath, Notable Mughal and Hindu Women in the 16 and 17th centuries

DS 461.9 .A1 N38 1990

Report Joyce Lebra-Chapman, The Rani of Jhansi: a Study in Female Heroism in India

DS475.2.L34 L43 1986

Report Claudia Preckel, Begams of Bhopal (Delhi: Roli Books, 2000) DS 495.B5 2000
Report Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, Sultana’s Dream, and Selections from The Secluded

Ones PR9420.9.R65 S86 1988

Quiz #1, 20 minutes You have a choice of 20 out of c.40, mostly terms from reports, discussion, and readings. Identify each item briefly, and then state its historical importance. Mixed in will be some short-answer questions, for variety. All three quizzes have the same format.

8. Women in South Asia and Western feminist thought

Class reading

Haeri, chapter 1, “Stating the Problems: Theoretical Contemplation,” pp. 3-44

Report Two essays from Sue Morgan, ed., The Feminist History Reader HQ1121 .F437 2006:

Ania Loomba, “Dead Woimen Tell no Tales: Issues of Femail Subjectivity, Subaltern

Agency and Tradition in Colonial and Post-Colonial Writings on Widow Immolation

in India,” pp. 309-322; Sanjam Ahluwalia and Antoinette Burton, “Rethinking Boundaries:

Feminism and (Inter) nationalism in Early Twentieth-Century India,” pp. 351-359.

Report Martha Nussbaum, Sex and Social Justice (Oxford: OUP, 1999) [Note: endnotes are in

addition to the listed page numbers, and must also be read.] “Introduction:

Feminism, Internationalism, Liberalism,” pp. 3-25; “Women and Cultural

Universals,” pp. 29-54; “Religion and Women’s Human Rights,” pp. 81-117.

NOTE: this reading is extremely important to the progress of this class.

9. Women in agrarian settings, part 2

Class reading

Bumiller, ch. 4, “Beyond the Veil: the Women of the Village of Khajuron,” 75-100

Susan Wadley, “Women and the Hindu Tradition,” in Jacobson and Wadley, Women of

India: Two Perspectives, pp. 111-136 PH-COPY

Report Bina Agarwal, A Field of One’s Own: Gender and Land Rights in South Asia, 1994

HD 860.3 .Z63 A35 1994

Report Patricia Jeffrey and Roger Jeffrey, Don’t Marry Me to a Plowman! Women’s

Everyday Lives in Rural North India, 1996 HQ 1745 .B55 J45 1996

10. Women Nationalists and Gandhians

Class reading:

Forbes, 64-156. Note: by now you will have adjusted to the fact that this is a text,

which must perforce attempt a comprehensive narrative. It can admittedly

become overwhelming at times; just absorb the overall patterns and life

histories, without obsessing about all the details.

Report Manmohini Zutshi Sahgal, An Indian Freedom Fighter Recalls her Life

HQ 1742 .S235 1994

Report Shudha Mazumdar, Memoirs of an Indian Woman HQ1742 .M3813

11. Typologies of Oppression and Liberation

Class reading:

Ismat Chughtai, “Tiny’s Granny,” Kali for Women, ed., Truth Tales (New York: Feminist

Press, 1990), pp. 147-159 PH-COPY

Bumiller, ch. 5, “No More Little Girls: Female Infanticide Among the Poor of Tamil

Nadu and Sex-Selective Abortion among the Rich of Bombay,” 101-124

Farah Ahmad, The Other Side of the Sky, 1-69.

Report Ruby Lal, “Recasting the Woman Question:the‘Girl-Child/Woman’‟in the Colonial

Encounter‟, Interventions Vol. 10 (3) (2008): 321-339. Reprinted in Gyanendra

Pandey (ed.), Subaltern Citizens and their Histories: Investigations from India and

the USA (London and New York: Routledge, 2010): 47-62.
Report Anita Weiss, Walls Within Walls (OUP: Karachi, 2002)
Report Veena T. Oldenburg, Dowry Murder:the Imperial Origins of a Cultural Crime (OUP, 2002)

HV6250.4 .W65 O43 2002

Report Tehmina Durrani, My Feudal Lord (Lahore) DS 385 .D87 A3 1991
Report Kunal M. Parker, ‘“A Corporation of Superior Prostitutes:” Anglo-Indian Legal

Conceptions of Temple Dancing Girls,1800-1914,’ Modern Asian Studies 32:3 (1998): 559-

633

12. Purdah: the Whys and Wherefores

Class reading:

Hannah Papanek, “Purdah: Separate Worlds and Symbolic Shelter,” in Papanek and Gail

Minault, eds., Separate Worlds: Studies of Purdah in South Asia, 4-51 (PH-COPY)

Report Taj Hashmi, Women and Islam in Bangladesh: Beyond Subjection and

Tyranny (London: MacMillan, 2000), chapters 2 (“Women and Islam:

a Reappraisal”), 3 (“Mullas, Popular Islam and Misogyny”) and 4

(“Women as Victims of the Salish: Fatwas, Mullas and the Village

Community”), pp. 12-132. HQ1745.6 .H375 200

Report Indira Ghose, Women Travellers in Colonial India PR778 .T72 G56 1998


13. Marriage as tragedy, marriage as bliss

Class reading

Haeri, chapter 5, “Marriage: Making a Culture of Her Own,” pp. 229-304

Elizabeth Bumiller, chapter 2, “Wedding First, Love Later”

Ismat Chughtai, “Chauthi ka Jaura,” pp. 74-88. PH-COPY

Report Betsy Hartmann and James K. Boyce, A Quiet Violence: View from a Bangladesh

Village (London: Zed Books and New Delhi: OUP, 1983), chapter 6, “The

Reluctant Bride,” 75-81; chapter 7, “Heaven under her Husband’s Feet,”

82-106; and chapter 8, “The Children,” 107-120. These two ethnographers

lived in Bangladesh for years, mostly in one village. Although their data

are 30 years old, their account is still very revealing of women’s roles.

14. Women in the History of the Raj

Class reading:

Haeri, chapter 2, “Identity: Contested Visions of Womanhood and Society,” pp. 46-106

Bumiller, ch. 6, “Towards, Equality: The Indian Women’s Movement,” 125-146

Forbes, 157-222

Report Two chapters from Kumkum Sangara and Sudesh Vaid, eds., Recasting Women:

Essays in Colonial History (Kali for Women, 1989): Partha Chatterjee,

“The Nationalist Resolution of the Women’s Question,” 233-253; and

Susie Tharu, “Tracing Savitri’s Pedigree: Victorian Racism and the Image

of Women in Indo-Anglian Literature,” 254-268. HQ1742 .R39 1989

(there are two copies in Alderman)
Report Bharati Ray, From the Seams of History: Essays on Indian Women (OUP, 1997)
Report Rosalind O’Hanlon, A Comparison between Women and Men: Tarabai Shinde and

the Critique of Gender Relations in Colonial India (Madras: OUP, 1994)
Report Antroinette Burton, Dwelling in the Archive: Women Writing House, Home, and History

in Late Colonial India (any two chapters, not the one in the PHO-CO) (OUP, 2003)

15. Women in Agrarian Settings, Part III

Class reading

Aparna Rao,”Khatij, a Woman from a Kashmiri Mountain Village,” in Mukulika Banerjee,

ed., Muslim Portraits: Everyday Life in India (Bloomington: Indiana

University Press, 2008), 96-108 (PH-COPY).

Farah Ahmad, The Other Side of the Sky, 70-133.
Report Ann Grodzins Gold, Listen to the Heron’s Words GR305.5 .U8 R34 1994 (Ald.)
Report Gilla, Mahindara Kaura, The role and status of women in Sikhism BL2017.8 .G58 1995
Report Patricia Jeffrey, Roger Jeffrey, and Craig Jeffrey, “Aisha, the Madrassa Teacher,”

in Mukulika Banerjee, ed., Muslim Portraits: Everyday Lives in India (Bloomington:

Indiana University Press, 2008), 56-68; and Soumhya Venkatesan, “Thalaivar Amma,

the Female Leader of Paiyur, Tamilnadu,” in the same volume, 128-140.

Quiz #2, 25 minutes

16. Bride-burning and sati (self-immolation or coerced burning of Hindu widows?)

Class reading:

Bumiller, ch. 3, “Flames: a Bride Burning and a Sati,” 44-74

Report John S. Hawley, ed., Sati: the Blessing and the Curse (New York, OUP) GT3370 . .S27 1994

Consult with instructor to select chapters.

Report Catherine Weinberger-Thomas, Ashes of Immortality; Widow Burning in India (OUP, 2000)

17. Mobilization, Liberation, Politics

Class reading

Haeri, chapter 3, “Violence: Woman’s Body, Nation’s Honor,” pp. 107-168

Bumiller, ch. 7, “‘Indira is India, and India is Indira’: Mrs. Gandhi and Her Legacy

for Indian Women in Politics,” 147-178

Report Kalima Rose, Where Women are Leaders: The SEWA Movement in India (London:

Zed, 1992) HD 6072.6 .I4 R67 1992

Report Indrani Chatterjee, “Alienation, Intimacy and Gender: Problems for a History of Love in

South Asia,” in Ruth Vanita, ed., Queering India: Same Sex Love and Eroticism in Indian

Culture and Society (Routledge, 2002)
Report R. Raj Rao and Dibyajyoti Sarma, eds. Whistling in the Dark: Twenty-one Queer Interviews

(New Delhi: Sage India, 2009)

18. Women and the Hindu Right

Class reading

Forbes, 223-254

Report Tanika Sarkar and Urvashi Bulalia, eds., Women and the Hindu Right (Kali for

Women, 1995) HQ1743 .W6 1995

Report Charu Gupta, Sexuality, obscenity, community : women, Muslims, and the Hindu

public in colonial India HQ1173 .G86 2001

19. in-class Video: “16 Decisions” 59 minutes. Bangladeshi women participate in a

cooperative banking system just for them, which however involves some serious life

choices. Micro-finance, accompanied by social uplift and mobilization.
20. Women in struggle: revolutionaries, prophets and heretics

Class reading

Bumiller, chapter 9, “Poets and Revolutionaries: Three women of Calcutta, 201-229”

Farah Ahmad, The Other Side of the Sky, 134-249.
Report Lakshmi Sahgal, A Revolutionary Life: Memoirs of a Political Activist (New

Delhi, 1997) With instructor.

21. Muslim Women and Shari’ah Law, Part I

Class reading

Haeri, ch. 7, “Religion: Reinterpreting the Text, Reinventing the Self,” pp. 348-404

Report Leila Ahmad, Women and Gender in Islam: Historical Roots of a Modern Debate

HQ 1784 .A67 1992

Report Amina Jamal, Jamaat-e-Islami Women in Pakistan (Syracuse Univ. Press, 2013)
Report Asiya Alam, “Polygyny, Family and Sharafat: Discourses Amongst North Indian Muslims,

circa 1870-1918, “ Modern Asian Studies 45.3: (May 2011), pp. 631-668,

22. Muslim Women and Shari’ah Law, Part II

Class reading

Haeri, “Conclusion,” pp. 405-411

Shamila N.b Chaudary, “Foreign Feminists: the Role of Feminists and the Women’s

Movement in Pakistan,” in Shaeed Shafqat, ed., New Perspectives on Pakistan:

Visions for the Future (Karachi: OUP, 2007), 238-257 (PH-COPY).

Report Afiya Shahrbano Zia, “Faith-Based Versus Rights-Based Development for Pakistani

Women,” in Anita M. Weiss and Saba Gul Khattak, eds., Development Challenges

Confronting Pakistan (Sterling, VA, Kumarian Press, 2013, 199-208; AND Nazish Brohi,

“Gendering Peripheries: Structuring the Nation, the State, and Consensus in

Pakistan,” in the same edited book, 211-223.
Report Bilkees Latif, Her India: The Fragrance of Forgotten Years DS485.H9 H895 198



Further reading for HISA 3121: This is a list from which to select a reading to assess IN WRITING for the class. The timing of the submission of your written product is up to you; you might wish to get it behind you, but be advised that a little exposure to the generic gender literature in South Asia will make for a richer and more nuanced essay. Two pages double-spaced, 12-pt font, one-inch margins, to be submitted in hard copy to instructor, with postings to classmates via Collab. Titles not listed here must be cleared with instructor beforehand. The idea is to make this source accessible to your classmates, and to engage us with your most considered and critical evaluation.
WRITE YOUR NAME CLEARLY IN INSTRUCTOR’S COPY, LEFT MARGIN NEXT TO THE ENTRY.
Shaila Abdullah, Saffron Dreams, a novel (Ann Arbor: Modern History Press, 2010)
Nazir Ahmad, Mir’at ul Arus [The Bride’s Mirror]: a Tale of Life in Delhi a Hundred Years Ago, G. E. Ward,

tr.,(Delhi: Permanent Black, 2001)

Ram Ahuja, Violence Against Women (Jaipur, 1998)
Elisabeth Armstrong, Gender and Neoliberarlism in India (New York, Routledge, 2011)
Parvati Athavale, My Story: the Autobiography of a Hindu Widow (New York, 1930)

Sumanta Banerjee, Dangerous Outcast: The Prostitute in 19th-century Bengal (Calcutta, 1998)

Asma Barlas, Believing Women in Islam (Austin: UT Press, 2002)

J. K. Tina Basi, Women, Identity and India’s Call Centre Industry (London: Routledge 2009)

Aparna Basu, Mridula Sarabai: Rebel with a Cause (Delhi: OUP, 1996)

Antoinette Burton, Burdens of History: British Feminists, Indian Women, and Imperial Culture,

1865-1915 (1994)

Antoinette Burton, Gender, Sexuality, and Colonial Modernity (2000)

Mandrakanta Bose, Women in the Hindu Tradition: Rules, Roles, and Exceptions (London: Routledge,

2010).

Urvashi Butalia, The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of Indiau (1998)

Kabita Chakraborty, Young Muslim Women in India (New York: Routledge, 2011)

Uma Chakravarti, Rewriting History: The Life and times of Pandita Ramabai (Kali for Women, 1998).

The life of one of India’s earliest feminists.

Indrani Chatterjee, Gender, Slavery and Law in Colonial India (New Delhi: OUP, 1999)

Indira Chowdhury, The Frail Hero and Virile History: Gender and the Politics of Culture in

Colonial Bengal (OUP India, 1998)

Radhika Chopra, C. Osella and F. Osella, eds., South Asian Masculinities (Kali for Women, 2004)

Ismat Chughtai, A Life in Words: Memoirs (Delhi: Penguin Classics, 2011). Trans. M. Asaduddin.

Manuela Ciotti, Political Agency and Gender in India (London: Routledge, 2010).

Mary Crawford, Sex Trafficking in South Asia: Telling Maya’s Story (London: Routledge, 2009)

Hope Cooke, Time Change: an Autobiography (New York, 1980). U.S. Socialite becomes Rani of Sikkim.

Parmesh Dangwal, "I Dare!" Kiran Bedi, a Biography (New Delhi, USBS Publishers, 1995). Bedi was

Chief of Police in New Delhi.

Frieda Hauswirth Das, Marriage to India (Plymouth, England, 1931). From lederhosen

to silk, an eyewitness account of India during the freedom movement.

Binodini Dasi, My Story; My Life as an Actress (R. Bhattacharya, ed. & trans.; (Kali for Women,1998)

Swarnakumari Debi, The Uprooted Vine (Delhi: OUP, 2004)

Neloufer DeMel, Kanchana N. Ruwanpura, and Gameela Samarasinghe, After the Waves: the Impact

of the Tsunami on Women in Sri Lanka (Columbo: Social Scientists’ Assn, 2009).

Leelamma Devasia and V. V. Devasia, Girl Child in India (Springfield, VA, 1992)

Gabriele Dietrich, Reflections on the Women’s Movement in India: Religion, Ecology, Development

(Delhi, 1992)

Leela Dube, Women and Kinship: Comparative Perspectives on Gender in South and Southeast Asia

(Tokyo, 1997)

Joan Erdman and Zohra Segal, Stages: the Art and Adventures of Zohra Segal (Kali for Women, 1997)

Aminul Faraizi, Tashkinur Rahman, and Jim McAllister, Microcredit and Women’s Empowerment: a

Case Study of Bangladesh London: Routledge, 2010).

Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger, In Amma’s Healing Room: Gender and Vernacular Islam in South India

(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006]

S. Gautham, Women Can’t Swim: Tsunami, Survival, and Gender Dimension (New Delhi: WISCOMP,

Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His Holiness the Dalai Lama, 2009).

Durbha Ghosh, Sex and the Family in Colonial India (New York: CUP, 2006)

Indira Ghose, ed., Memsahibs Abroad: Women Travellers in 19th-century India (Delhi: OUP, 1998)

Rumer Godden, Bengal Journey: A Story of the Part Played by Women in the Province, 1939-1945

(Calcutta: Bengal Mission Press, 1945)

Inderpal Grewal, Home and Harem: Nation, Gender, Empire and Cultures of Travel (1996)

Benedicte Grima, The Performance of Emotion among Paxtun Women (Karachi, OUP, 1993)

Kanta Grover, Burning Flesh (Delhi: Vikas, 1990)

Raana Haider, A Perspective in Development: Gender Focus (Dhaka, 1995)

Zoya Hasan and Ritu Menon, Unequal Citizens: a Study of Muslim Women in India (OUP, 2004)

HM548.H37

John S. Hawley, ed., Fundamentalism and Gender (OUP, 1994), chapters 1-4, 7.

Haseena Hashia, ed., Muslim Women in India since Independence (Delhi,1998)

Sarah Hobson, Family Web: a Story of India (London, 1978). British woman’s portrayal of village life

and gender roles in southern India.

Shahanara Hussain, The Social Life of Women in Early Medieval Bengal (Dhaka, 1985)

Sabiha Hussain, The Changing Half: a Study of Indian Muslim Women (New Delhi, 1998)

Qurratulain Hyder, River of Fire (Delhi: Kali for Women, 1998)

Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah, From Purdah to Parliament (rev. ed. Karachi, 1998--orig. ed. 1963)

Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah, Behind the Veil: Ceremonies, Customs, and Colour (Karachi, 1953)

Isis International and Kali for Women, Against All Odds: Essays on Women, Religion and Development

from India and Pakistan, 1994

Zia Jaffrey, The Invisibles: a Tale of the Eunuchs of India (New York, 1996). An American woman

of Indian heritage is entranced by the gender roles of transvestites, hermaphrodites, eunuchs.

Varsha Joshi, Polygamy and Purdah: Women and Society among Rajputs (New Delhi: Rawat, 1995)

Anees Jung, Night of the New Moon: Encounters with Muslim Women in India (Delhi, 1993)

Kumari Jayawardena, The White Woman’s Other Burden: Western Women and South Asia during

Colonial Rule (New York, 1995)

Kumari Jayawardena and Malathi de Alwis, eds., Embodied Violence: Communalising Women’Sexuality

in South Asia (London: Zed Books, 1996)

Varsha Joshi, Polygamy and Purdah: Women and Society among Rajputs (Jaipur, 1995)

Sudhir Kakar, Intimate Relations: Exploring Indian Sexuality (New Delhi, 1989). A psychoanalist

searches myths, stories, legends, cinema, his patients’ stories, and the Mahatma for a profile

of Indians’ sexual behaviors.

Kalpana Kannabiran & Vasanth Kannabiran, De-eroticizing assault : essays on modesty, honour, and

power HV6250.4 .W65 K36 2002 (Mumbai : Popular Prakashan, 2002)

Kalpana Kannabiran and Vasanth Kannabiran, Muvalur Ramamirthammal's "Web of Deceit": Devadasi

Reform in Colonial India

Kirin Kapadia, Siva and Her Sisters: Gender, Caste, and Class in Rural South India (Westview, 1995)

Miranda Kennedy, Sideways on a Scooter: Life and Love in India (New York: Random House, 2011)

Indira Kulshreshtha “Noopur,” Indian Women: Images and Reflections (New Delhi: Blaze, 1992)

Ruby Lal, Domesticity and Power in the Early Mughal World (Cambridge: :CUP, 2005)

Shahida Lateef, Muslim Women in India: Political and Private Realities, 1890s-1980s (Delhi, 1990)

Mattias Larsen, Vulnerable Daughters in India: Culture, Development, and Changing Contexts (London:

Routledge, 2011)

Sarah Lloyd, An Indian Attachment (1984) An Englishwoman lives with an illiterate Punjabi farmer

named Jungli for two romantic years, and this is her highly observant account.

Wynne Maggi, Our Women are Free: Gender and Ethnicity in the Hindukush (Ann Arbor: U. Mich

Press, 2003)

Katherine Mayo, Mother India Edited and introduced by Mrinalini Sinha (Ann Arbor: U Mich. Press, 2000)

Ritu Menon and Kamla Bhasin, Borders and Boundaries: Women in India’s Partition (New Delhi: 1998)

Fatima Mernissi, Hidden from History: the Forgotten Queens of Islam (Paris, 1990; reprint ed.

Lahore, 1993)

Barbara Daly Metcalf, tr. And ed, Perfecting Women: Maulana Ashraf Ali Thanawi’s Bihishti Zewar

(Berkeley: U.C. Press, 1990). An important 19th-century male reformer’s prescription.

Barbara D. Miller, The Endangered Sex: Neglect of Female Children in Rural North India, chapters 1-2, 5,

7-8. Susan Wadley’s student, on gendered demography. HQ777 .M44 1981

Gail Minault, Secluded Scholars: Women’s Education and Muslim Social Reform in Colonial India

(Delhi: OUP, 1998)

__________, Gender, Language, and Learning: Essays in Indo-Muslim Cultural History (Lucknow:

Permanent Black, 2009). Any five chapters.

Leigh Minturn, Sita’s Daughters: Coming out of Purdah:the Rajput Women of Kholapur Revisited

(New York: OUP, 1993)

Jasmin Mirza, Between Chaddor and Market: Female Office Workers in Lahore (2002)

Ainon Nahar Mizan, In Quest of Empowerment: the Grameen Bank Impact on Women’s Power and

Status (Dhaka, 1994)

Lucy Moore, Maharanis: a Family Saga of Four Queens (New York: Penguin, 2004)

Swapna Mukhopadhyay and R. Savithri, Poverty, Gender, and Reproductive Choice: an Analysis of

Linkages (Delhi, 1998)

Kishwar Naheed, ed., Women: Myth and Realities (Lahore, 1994)

C. Risseeuw, The Fish Don’t Talk about the Water: Gender Transformation, Power and Resistance among

Women in South Asia, 1988

Salla Sariola, Gender and Sexuality in India: Selling Sex in Chennai (London: Routledge, 2009)

Krupabai Satthianadhan, Kamala: the Story of a Hindu Life (Delhi: OUP, 1998). A 19th-century

woman’s turbulent life, during which she became one of the first female medical students in

India, and involved herself in early feminist activism.

Krupabai Satthianandhan, Saguna: the first Autobiographical Novel in English by an Indian Woman

(Delhi: OUP, 1998)

Atreyee Sen, Shiv Sena Women: Violence and Communalism in a Bombay Slum (Bloomington: Indiana

University Press, 2007)

Rajeshwari Sundar Rajan, Real and Imagined Women: Gender, Culture, and Postcolonialism (London,1993)

Rajeswari Sundar Rajan, Signposts: Gender Issues in Post-Independence India (Kali for Women)

_________________, The scandal of the state : women, law, and citizenship in postcolonial India KNS516

.R35 2003

Bharati Ray, ed., From the Seams of History: Essays on Indian Women HQ 1742 .F7 1995

Bharati Ray and Aparna Basu, eds., From Independence towards Freedom: Indian Women since 1947

(New Delhi: OUP, 1999)

Rajat Kanta Ray, Exploring Emotional History: Gender, Mentality, and Literature in the Indian

Awakening (Delhi: OUP, 2001).

Rakha Ray, Fields of Protest: Women’s Movements in India (1999)

Gayatri Reddy, With Respect to Sex: Negotiating Hijra Identity in South India (2005)

Laura A. Ring, Zenana: Everyday Peace in a Karachi Apartment Building (Bloomington: University of

Indiana Press, 2006)

Anthony Sattin, ed., An Englishwoman in India: the Memoirs of Harriet Tytler, 1828-1858 (1986)

Ayesha Shahid, Silent Voices, Untold Stories: Women Domestic Workers in Pakistan and their

Struggle for Empowerment (Oxford U. Press, 2010).

Sarojini Sharan, Women Prime Ministers in South Asia (Delhi, 1995)

Vandana Shiva, Staying Alive: Women, Ecology, and Development (New Delhi: Zed, 1989)

Indu Prakash Singh, Indian Women: The Captured Beings (New Delhi, 1990) One of India’s angriest

male allies of women’s liberation.

Indu Sundaresan, Shadow Princess (Delhi: Harper Collins, 2010). Novel about Jahanara, daughter

of Shah Jahan and Mumtaz Mahal, extremeley atmospheric and insightful.

Sirpa Tenhunen, Means of Awakening: Gender, Politics, and Practice in Rural India (Kolkata: Stree,

2009).

Lakshmibai Tilak, I Follow After: An Autobiography (New York, 1950; trans. from Marathi by E.

Josephine Inkster.) Married at eleven, only to be “widowed” soon after by her husband’s

conversion to Christianity, a Maharashtrian brahman woman recounts her life story.

Mary Tyler, My Years in an Indian Prison (London, 1977). A British woman goes to jail for “spying”

during the Emergency, and relates her story of women in prison.

Patricia Uberoi, Freedom and Destiny: Gender, Family and Popular Culture in India (New York, OUP,

2006).

Mahadevi Varma, Sketches from My Past: Encounters with India’s Oppressed (Neera Kuckreja

Sohoni, trans.) (Boston, 1994)

Viramma, Josiane Racine and Jean-Luc Racine, Viramma: Life of an Untouchable (Paris, 1997)

M. D. Vyas and Yogesh Shingala, The Life Style of the Eunuchs (New Delhi, 1987)

Sumit and Tanika Sarkar, eds., Women and Social Reform in Modern India (2008)

Judith E. Walsh, Growing up in British India: Indian Autobiographers on Childhood and Education under

the Raj (New York, 1983). A gender-inclusive treatment.

Susan Wadley, Shakti: Power in the Conceptual Structure of Karimpur Religion (New Delhi, 1985)

Merrily Weisbord, The Love Queen Of Malabar : Memories Of Friendship With Kamala Das.. (Research

Press, 2010). 280p.

Frances Maria Yasas and Vera Mehta, eds., Exploring Feminist Visions: Case Studies on Social Justice

Issues, 1990
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