Gender in Modern India

Lata Singh is Associate Professor, Centre for Women's Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. She has been a British Academy Visiting Fellow, Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla, and University Grants Commission Research Awardee. An editorial board member of the Dutch Journal of Feminist Studies, her books and edited collections include Raising the Curtain: Recasting Women Performers in India (Orient BlackSwan, 2017); Theatre in Colonial India: Play-House of Power (OUP, 2009); Popular Translations of Nationalism: Bihar, 1920-22 (Primus Books, 2012); Colonial and Contemporary Bihar and Jharkhand (Primus Books, 2014); and Violence and Performing Arts (IIAS Shimla, 2016). She was the Guest Editor of a special issue of the Indian Historical Review on 'Issues of Gender: Colonial and Post-Colonial India' (2008). Shashank Shekhar Sinha is an independent researcher and the author of Restless Mothers and Turbulent Daughters: Situating Tribes in Gender Studies (Stree, 2005) and Delhi, Agra, Fatehpur Sikri: Monuments, Cities and Connected Histories (Pan Macmillan, 2021). He has published extensively on Adivasis, gender, and witch hunting. Sinha taught undergraduate courses in history at the University of Delhi for almost a decade (1994-2004). He worked with Oxford University Press (2004-2012) before moving on to join Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, as Publishing Director (South Asia) in 2012.

Preface and Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Section I: Reforms, Castes, and Contestations
1: Uma Chakravarti: Locating Consent: The Social and Historical Contexts of 'Choice' in Marriage
2: Smita M Patil: Gender, Caste, and Patriarchy: Anti-Caste Movements in Colonial Maharashtra
Section II: Tribes, Patriarchy, and Colonialism
3: Sajal Nag and R Lalsangpuii: Reversing of Gender: Anti-Colonial Resistance by Women Warriors in Northeast India
4: Shashank Shekhar Sinha: Adivasis, Gender, and Witch hunting in Early Colonial Chotanagpur and Santhal Parganas
Section III: Political Economy and Labour
5: M V Shobhana Warrier: Women, Union, and the Strike Against Sexual Harassment in Colonial Madura, 1920
6: Indu Agnihotri: Negotiating Crisis: The Great Depression and Women's Lives in Colonial Punjab
Section IV: Masculinity and Sexuality
7: Charu Gupta: Fragmentary Histories, Subaltern Sexualities, and Vernacular Archives
8: Prem Chowdhry: White Femininity-Black Masculinity: Imperialism, Racism, and Gender Relations in an Empire Film (The Rains Came)
Section V: Health, Medical Care, and Institution Building
9: Ranjana Saha: Midwifery, Childbirth, and Breastfeeding Advice in Colonial Bengal
10: Rama V Baru: Women Missionaries in Medical Care and Institution Building in India
Section VI: Culture and Identity
11: Lata Singh: The Muslim Courtesans in Colonial India
12: Dev Nath Pathak: Margin(al) Maithili: Cultural Politics of Engendered Folk in Mithila
Section VII: Migrations and Their Emerging Dynamics
13: Rajni Palriwala: Doing Care, Making Socialities on the Move: Gendering Internal Migration in India
14: Indrani Mazumdar: Mapping Marginal Terrains: Corridors of Women's Labour Migration from Odisha
Index