Women in Modern India

Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 1999. First paperback edition . Softcover. Good Condition. Binding is tight, cover and spine fully intact Text body is clean and free from previous owner annotation, underlining and highlighting No foxing in this copy Edges clean and neat with library stamp on top edge Ex-library, cover laminated, stamp on front free endpaper, page edge and on title page. Text appears to be free of library stamps. etc Ex-library with stamps, stickers, etc and a mark on front free endpaper and on inside front cover. In a compelling study of Indian women, Geraldine Forbes considers their recent history from the nineteenth century under colonial rule to the twentieth century after Independence.

She begins with the reform movement, established by men to educate women, and demonstrates how education changed women's lives enabling them to take part in public life. Through their own accounts of their lives and activities, she documents the formation of their organisations, their participation in the struggle for freedom, their role in the colonial economy and the development of the women's movement in India since 1947. B & W photos