01327nam a22002057a 450000500170000000800410001702000180005802801310007608200150020710000180022224500900024026000370033030000220036736500120038952006620040165000140106365000110107765000160108870000170110420251010144528.0251010b        |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9789384082987  aInternational Book DistributorsbFlat No.-17, Prakash Apartment, 4405/2, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhic122012d20/09/2025  a305.42 ATW  aAtwal, Jyoti.  aReal and imagined widowsb: gender relations in colonial North India.c/ Jyoti Atwal.  aDelhi b: Primus Books c, 2016.  ax, 282p.c: 24cm.  b1046.50  aReal and Imagined Widows: Gender Relations in Colonial North India explores the politico-cultural imagination that formed the subtext of the reformist, nationalist and women’s discourses on widowhood from the colonial period to the 1950s. The reformist voice and action on widowhood remained loosely defined so that the 1933 Bill in favour of giving property ‘rights’ to widows continued to be rejected by conservative Hindus in the United Provinces until 1937, when the debate led by Harbilas Sharda acquired a national status. This book examines the legislative debates on the relationship between sexuality, morality, property rights and widowhood.  aWidowhood  aWidows  aHindu women  aJyoti Atwal