Coming of Age in Nineteenth-Century India(English, Hardcover, Lal Ruby)

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Coming of Age in Nineteenth-Century India(English, Hardcover, Lal Ruby) is written by Lal Ruby and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1107030242 (ISBN 10) and 9781107030244 (ISBN 13).

In this engaging and eloquent history, Ruby Lal traces the becoming of nineteenth-century Indian women through a critique of narratives of linear transition from girlhood to womanhood. In the north Indian patriarchal environment, women's lives were dominated by the expectations of the male universal, articulated most clearly in household chores and domestic duties. The author argues that girls and women in the early nineteenth century experienced freedoms, eroticism, adventurousness and playfulness, even within restrictive circumstances. Although women in the colonial world of the later nineteenth century remained agential figures, their activities came to be constrained by more firmly entrenched domestic norms. Lal skillfully marks the subtle and complex alterations in the multifaceted female subject in a variety of nineteenth-century discourses, elaborated in four different sites - forest, school, household, and rooftops.