An edition of Politics of the Possible (2000)

Politics of the possible

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Tulika
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Subjects

Women, asia, Southeast asia, history, India, history, Colonies, Women, Social conditions, Indic literature (English), History and criticism
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Cover of: Politics of the Possible
Politics of the Possible: Essays on Gender, History, Narrative, Colonial English (Anthem South Asian Studies)
May 2002, Anthem Press
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Cover of: Politics of the Possible
Politics of the Possible: Essays on Gender, History, Narrative, Colonial English (Anthem South Asian Studies)
May 2002, Anthem Press
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Cover of: Politics of the Possible
Politics of the Possible: Essays on Gender, History, Narratives, Colonial English
January 1, 2001, Manohar Publishers and Distributors
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Table of Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1 Politics of the possible: or the perils of reclassification 1
2 Of ladies, gentlemen, and the "short-cut": or choosing
unfreedom 29
3 "Not knowing, but only guessing": a modernist
resolution 56
4 Figures for the 'unconscious': the pressures on
description 74
5 Relating histories 96
A dialectic of reform and preservation: Sanskrit
and Hindu women 98
Literature, female literacy, colonial English:
an interface 124
The gender of ignorance and altruism:
English women and empire 163
6 Women against women 184
Mirroring trajectories: the fortunes of English,
the logics of class 188
Diverse faiths, shared customs, composite beliefs 231
The prism of caste: Chhabili Bhatiyari 247
7 The 'amenities of domestic life' 279
'On our work there is no blessing': questions
on labour 282
The servitude of love and the science of denial 305
The promise and retreat of conjugality:
widows and prostitutes 350
8 Consent, agency, and rhetorics of incitement 364
In indirect ways 366
Boons, entitlements, obligations:
Kaikeyi and Manthara 384
Under institutional sanction: the discourse
of violence 397.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [410]-489) and index.

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New Delhi

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AC8 .S273 2000

The Physical Object

Pagination
xlix, 503 p. ;
Number of pages
503

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OL168183M
Internet Archive
politicsofpossib0000sang
ISBN 10
8185229104
LCCN
99945639
OCLC/WorldCat
43657530
Library Thing
3338541
Goodreads
2202440

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