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Domestic Goddesses
Based on extensive fieldwork in Calcutta, this book provides the first ethnography of how middle-class women in India understand and experience economic change through transformations of family life. It explores their ideas, practices and experiences of marriage, childbirth, reproductive change and their children's education, and addresses the impact that globalization is having on the new middle classes in Asia more generally from a domestic perspective. By focusing on maternity, the book explores subjective understandings of the way intimate relationships and the family are affected by India's liberalization policies and the neo-liberal ideologies that accompany through an analysis of often competing ideologies and multiple practices. And by drawing attention to women's agency as wives, mothers and grandmothers within these new frameworks, Domestic Goddesses discusses the experiences of different age groups affected by these changes. Through a careful analysis of women's narratives, the domestic sphere is shown to represent the key site for the remaking of Indian middle-class citizens in a global world.
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The Hindu Family and the Emergence of Modern India
Between 1955 and 1956 the Government of India passed four Hindu Law Acts to reform and codify Hindu family law. Scholars have understood these acts as a response to growing concern about women's rights but, in a powerful re-reading of their history, this book traces the origins of the Hindu law reform project to changes in the political-economy of late colonial rule. The Hindu Family and the Emergence of Modern India considers how questions regarding family structure, property rights and gender relations contributed to the development of representative politics, and how, in solving these questions, India's secular and state power structures were consequently drawn into a complex and unique relationship with Hindu law. In this comprehensive and illuminating resource for scholars and students, Newbigin demonstrates the significance of gender and economy to the history of twentieth-century democratic government, as it emerged in India and beyond.
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The windfall : a novel
\"For the past thirty years, Mr. and Mrs. Jha's lives have been defined by cramped spaces, cut corners, gossipy neighbors, and the small dramas of stolen yoga pants and stale marriages. They thought they'd settled comfortably into their golden years, pleased with their son's acceptance into an American business school. But then Mr. Jha comes into an enormous and unexpected sum of money, and moves his wife from their housing complex in East Delhi to the super-rich side of town, where he becomes eager to fit in as a man of status: skinny ties, hired guards, shoe-polishing machines, and all. The move sets off a chain of events that rock their neighbors, their marriage, and their son, who is struggling to keep a lid on his romantic dilemmas and slipping grades, and brings unintended consequences, ultimately forcing the Jha family to reckon with what really matters\" -- provided by publisher.
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Unforgotten
As life expectancy increases in India, the number of people living with dementia will also rise. Yet little is known about how people in India cope with dementia, how relationships and identities change through illness and loss.
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Working-class Raj : colonialism and the making of class in British India
\"Working-Class Raj explores what happened to working-class men and women when they left Britain and travelled to India, where their worlds were upended by the disruptive addition of race to British social hierarchies. Drawing on previously unused correspondence collections, this book puts British workingclass history in a global perspective\"-- Provided by publisher.650
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Windows into the Past
Judith M. Brown, one of the leading historians of South Asia,
provides an original and thought-provoking strategy for conducting
and presenting historical research in her latest book, Windows
into the Past . Brown looks at how varieties of \"life history\"
that focus on the lives of institutions and families, as well as
individuals, offer a broad and rich means of studying history. Her
distinctively creative approach differs from traditional historical
biography in that it explores a variety of \"life histories\" and
shows us how they become invaluable windows into the past.
Following her introduction, \"The Practice of History,\" Brown
opens windows on the history of South Asia. She begins with the
life history of an educational institution, Balliol College,
Oxford, and tracks the interrelationship between Britain and India
through the lives of the British and Indian men who were educated
there. She then demonstrates the significance of family life
history, showing that by observing patterns of family life over
several generations, it is possible to gain insight into the
experiences of groups of people who rarely left historical
documents about themselves, particularly South Asian women.
Finally, Brown uses the life history of two prominent individuals,
Mahatma Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru, to examine questions about the
nature of Indian nationalism and the emergent Indian state.
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The golden son : a novel
From the beloved author of \"Secret Daughter\" comes a moving new novel of a young man at the crossroads of life. Anil is the first person in his family to leave India, the first to attend college, the first to become a doctor. Half a world away in Dallas, Texas, he is caught up in his new life, experiencing all the freedoms and temptations of American culture: he tastes alcohol for the first time, falls in love, and learns firsthand about his adopted country's alluring, dangerous contradictions.
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My family and other saints
In 1969, young Kirin Narayan’s older brother, Rahoul, announced that he was quitting school and leaving home to seek enlightenment with a guru. From boyhood, his restless creativity had continually surprised his family, but his departure shook up everyone— especially Kirin, who adored her high-spirited, charismatic brother.
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