: gender relations in colonial North India Atwal, Jyoti. creator Jyoti Atwal text Delhi : Primus Books , 2016 monographic eng

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x, 282p. : 24cm. 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. / Jyoti Atwal. Widowhood Widows Hindu women 305.42 ATW 9789384082987 International Book Distributors Flat No.-17, Prakash Apartment, 4405/2, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi 251010 20251010144528.0