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Female infanticide in India : a feminist cultural history / Rashmi Dube Bhatnagar, Renu Dube & Reena Dube.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2005.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 320 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 1423743717
  • 9781423743712
  • 0791463273
  • 9780791463277
  • 0791463281
  • 9780791463284
  • 9780791483855
  • 0791483851
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Female infanticide in India.DDC classification:
  • 392.1/2 22
LOC classification:
  • HV6541.I5 B53 2005eb
Online resources:
Contents:
The practice of femicide in postcolonial India and the discourse of population control within the nation state -- Center and periphery in British India : post-enlightenment discursive construction of daughters buried under the family room -- Social mobility in relation to female infanticide in Rajput clans : British and indigenous contestations about lineage purity and hypergamy -- A critical history of the colonial discourse of infanticide reform, 1800-1854, part I : infanticide reform as an extra-economic extraction of surplus -- A critical history of the colonial discourse of infanticide reform, 1800-1854, part II : the erasure of the female child under population discourse -- Subaltern traditions of resistance to Rajput patriarchy articulated by generations of women within the Meera tradition -- The Meera tradition as a historic embrace of the poor and the dispossessed -- Appendix : the Baee Nathee case.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-312) and index.

The practice of femicide in postcolonial India and the discourse of population control within the nation state -- Center and periphery in British India : post-enlightenment discursive construction of daughters buried under the family room -- Social mobility in relation to female infanticide in Rajput clans : British and indigenous contestations about lineage purity and hypergamy -- A critical history of the colonial discourse of infanticide reform, 1800-1854, part I : infanticide reform as an extra-economic extraction of surplus -- A critical history of the colonial discourse of infanticide reform, 1800-1854, part II : the erasure of the female child under population discourse -- Subaltern traditions of resistance to Rajput patriarchy articulated by generations of women within the Meera tradition -- The Meera tradition as a historic embrace of the poor and the dispossessed -- Appendix : the Baee Nathee case.

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