01175nam a2200193Ia 4500 20261026142520.0 260608s9999||||xx |||||||||||||| ||und|| 0521453631 23 331.40954 SEN Sen,Samita Women and labour in late colonial India : the Bengal jute industry / Samita Sen London : Cambridge University Press ,1999 265 p. Samita Sen's history of laboring women in Bengal in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries considers how social constructions of gender shaped their lives. The author demonstrates how the long-term trends in the Indian economy devalued women's labor, establishing patterns of urban migration and changing gender equations within the family. She relates these trends to the spread of dowry, enforced widowhood and child marriage. The study will make a significant contribution to the understanding of the social and economic history of colonial India and to notions of gender construction. Labor economics Gender construction social and economic history of colonial India RBK 68997 68997 0 0 ddc 0 1 SNUL SNUL 2026-06-08 0 331.40954 SEN G8324 2026-06-08 15:45:16 2026-06-08 RBK Prof. Romila Thapar's Collection