Women and Labour in Late Colonial India - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women and Labour in Late Colonial India write by Samita Sen. This book was released on 1999-05-06. Women and Labour in Late Colonial India available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Transition to a Colonial Economy
The Transition to a Colonial Economy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Transition to a Colonial Economy write by Prasannan Parthasarathi. This book was released on 2001-04-19. The Transition to a Colonial Economy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. According to widespread belief, poverty and low standards of living have been characteristic of India for centuries. Challenging this view, Prasannan Parthasarathi demonstrates that, until the late eighteenth century, labouring groups in South India, those at the bottom of the social order, were in a powerful position, receiving incomes well above subsistence. The decline in their economic fortunes, the author asserts, was a process initiated towards the end of that century, with the rise of colonial rule. Building on revisionist interpretations, he examines the transformation of Indian society and its economy under British rule through the prism of the labouring classes, arguing that their treatment by the early colonial state had no precedent in the pre-colonial past and that poverty and low wages were a product of colonial rule. The book promises to make an important contribution to the economic history of the region, and to the study of colonialism.
Working Lives & Worker Militancy
Working Lives & Worker Militancy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Working Lives & Worker Militancy write by Ravi Ahuja. This book was released on 2013. Working Lives & Worker Militancy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Papers presented at the International Workshop on "The Politics of Poverty and the Politics of the Poor in Modern South Asia", held at Centre for Modern Indian Studies, Göttingen in 2011.
Bonded Histories
Bonded Histories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Bonded Histories write by Gyan Prakash. This book was released on 2003-10-30. Bonded Histories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An original and compelling view of transformations in the relationship of bondage in southern Bihar.
Law and the Economy in Colonial India
Law and the Economy in Colonial India - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Law and the Economy in Colonial India write by Tirthankar Roy. This book was released on 2016-09-20. Law and the Economy in Colonial India available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. By accessibly recounting and analyzing the unique experience of institutions in colonial Indiawhich were influenced heavily by both British Common Law and indigenous Indian practices and traditionsLaw and the Economy in Colonial India sheds new light on what exactly fosters the types of institutions that have been key to economic development throughout world history more generally. The culmination and years of research, the book goes through a range of examples, including textiles, opium, tea, indigo, tenancy, credit, and land mortgage, to show how economic laws in colonial India were shaped neither by imported European ideas about how colonies should be ruled nor indigenous institutions, but by the practice of producing and trading. The book is an essential addition to Indian history and to some of the most fundamental questions in economic history."
