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Women and Labour in Late Colonial India: The Bengal Jute Industry (Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society, Series Number 3) by Samita Sen; American Council of Learned Societies is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Samita Sen's history of laboring women in Bengal in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries considers how social constructions of gender shaped their lives. The author demonstrates how the long-term trends in the Indian economy devalued women's labor, establishing patterns of urban migration and changing gender equations within the family. She relates these trends to the spread of dowry, enforced widowhood and child marriage. The study will make a significant contribution to the understanding of the social and economic history of colonial India and to notions of gender construction.

Who reads Women and Labour in Late Colonial India: The Bengal Jute Industry (Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society, Series Number 3)?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Samita Sen; American Council of Learned Societies
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
Published
1999
Language
EN
ISBN
9780521035064
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Business, Political Science, Economics

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