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Coming of Age in NineteenthCentury India: The GirlChild and the Art of Playfulness,Used
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In this engaging and eloquent history, Ruby Lal traces the becoming of nineteenthcentury 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 the male universal, articulated most clearly in household chores and domestic duties. The author argues that girls and women in the early nineteenth century experienced freedoms, eroticism, adventurousness and playfulness, even within restrictive circumstances. Although women in the colonial world of the later nineteenth century continued to be agential figures, their activities came to be constrained by more firmly entrenched domestic norms. Lal skillfully marks the subtle and complex alterations in the multifaceted female subject in a variety of nineteenthcentury discourses, which are elaborated in four different sites forest, school, household, and rooftop.
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