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Coming of age in nineteenth-century India : the girl-child and the art of playfulness /

"In this engaging and eloquent history, Ruby Lal traces the coming of age 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 th...

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Main Author: Lal, Ruby
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Women > India > Social life and customs > 19th century.
Girls > India > Social life and customs > 19th century.
Domestic relations > India > History > 19th century.
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