Women as subjects : South Asian histories - Kumar, Nita, 1951- (Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia, 1994)
Introduction / Nita Kumar -- 1. Gender, Violence and Power: Rajasthani Stories of Shakti / Ann Grodzins Gold -- 2. Women's Speech Genres, Kinship and Contradiction / Gloria Goodwin Raheja -- 3. Between Two Worlds: Self-Construction and Self-Identity in the Writings of Three Ninteenth-Century Indian Christian Women / Leslie A. Flemming -- 4. Others Voices, Other Rooms: The View from the Zenana / Gail Minault -- 5. Killing My Heart's Desire: Education and Female Autonomy in Rural North India / Patrick Jeffery and Roger Jeffery -- 6. Gender and Politics in Garhwal /William Sax -- 7. Oranges for the Girls, or, the Half-Known Story of the Education of Girls in Twentieth-Century Banaras / Nita Kumar.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Women -- India -- Social conditions; Women -- India -- Economic conditions; Women's rights -- India; Feminism -- India