01377nam a22002297a 4500 20251010144528.0 251010b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9789384082987 International Book Distributors Flat No.-17, Prakash Apartment, 4405/2, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi 122012 20/09/2025 305.42 ATW Atwal, Jyoti. Real and imagined widows : gender relations in colonial North India. / Jyoti Atwal. Delhi : Primus Books , 2016. x, 282p. : 24cm. 1046.50 Real 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. Widowhood Widows Hindu women Jyoti Atwal BOOK 66451 66451 0 0 ddc 0 0 SNUL SNUL 2025-10-10 International Book Distributors 1046.50 0 305.42 ATW 31146 2025-10-10 14:45:51 2025-10-10 BOOK