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Fathers in a motherland : imagining fatherhood in colonial India /

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"Fathers in a Motherland weaves stories of fathers and children into the history of gender, family, and nation in colonial India. Focusing on the reformist Bengali Hindu and Brahmo communities, Banerjee contends that fatherhood assumed new meanings and significance in late nineteenth and early...

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Main Author: Banerjee, Swapna M. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2022.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Fatherhood > India > History > 19th century.
Fatherhood > India > History > 20th century.
India > Social conditions > 19th century.
India > Social conditions > 20th century.
Paternité > Inde > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Paternité > Inde > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Inde > Conditions sociales > 19e siècle.
Inde > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle.
Fatherhood
Social conditions
India
Society & culture: general.
Family and Relationships.
1800-1999
Electronic books.
History
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Familial and the Familiar: In Search of Fathers and Children in Indian History
  • 2. Fathers at the Crossroads: Literary Activism and Fatherhood in Nineteenth-Century Bengal
  • 3. Fathers in a Motherland: Children as Social Imaginaries in the Scientific Literature of Nineteenth-Century Bengal
  • 4. Imagining Fatherhood: Representations of Fathers in Autobiographical Literature of Colonial Bengal
  • 5. Rabindranath Tagore: The Father and the Educator
  • 6. Beyond Bengal
  • Gandhi and Nehru: Fathers at Home and Fathers of the Nation.