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028			_aInternational Book Distributors _bFlat No.-17, Prakash Apartment, 4405/2, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi _c122012 _d20/09/2025
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100			_aAtwal, Jyoti.
245			_aReal and imagined widows _b: gender relations in colonial North India. _c/ Jyoti Atwal.
260			_aDelhi _b: Primus Books _c, 2016.
300			_ax, 282p. _c: 24cm.
365			_b1046.50
520			_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.
650			_aWidowhood
650			_aWidows
650			_aHindu women
700			_aJyoti Atwal
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