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Women and Labour in Late Colonial India: The Bengal Jute Industry

Women and Labour in Late Colonial India: The Bengal Jute Industry

Sen, Samita
Bayly, Christopher Alan
Chandavarkar, Rajnarayan

Paperback

Series: Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society, Book 3

EconomicsIndian & South Asian HistoryWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0521035066
ISBN13: 9780521035064
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Dec 14 2006
Pages: 288
Weight: 0.94
Height: 0.65 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Samita Sen's history of laboring women in Bengal in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries considers how social constructions of gender shaped their lives. The author demonstrates how the long-term trends in the Indian economy devalued women's labor, 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 study will make a significant contribution to the understanding of the social and economic history of colonial India and to notions of gender construction.

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