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Women, Labour and the Economy in India

From Migrant Menservants to Uprooted Girl Children Maids

By: Deepita Chakravarty,Ishita Chakravarty

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Women, Labour and the Economy in India

From Migrant Menservants to Uprooted Girl Children Maids

By: Deepita Chakravarty,Ishita Chakravarty

The last available census estimated around 10 per cent of total urban working women in India are concentrated in the low paid domestic services such as cleaning, cooking, and taking care of the children and the elderly. This is found to be much higher in certain parts of India, emerging as the single most important avenue for urban females, surpassing males in the service since the 1980s. By applying an imaginative and refreshing mix of disciplinary approaches ranging from economic models of the household, empirical analysis and literary conventions, this book analyses the changing labour economy in post-partition West Bengal. It explains how and why women and girl children have replaced this traditionally male bias in the gender segregated domestic service industry since the late 1940s, and addresses the question of whether this increase in vulnerable individuals working in domestic service, the growth of the urban professional middle class in the post liberalization period, and the increasing incidences of reported abuses of domestics, in urban middleclass homes in the recent years, are related. Covering five decades of the history of gender and labour in India, this book will be of interest to scholars working in the fields of gender and labour relations, development studies, economics, history, and women and gender studies.

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Routledge

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1317362772

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9781317362777

A History of Modern India

By: Ishita Banerjee-Dube

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A History of Modern India

By: Ishita Banerjee-Dube

This book provides an interpretive and comprehensive account of the history of India between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries, a crucial epoch characterized by colonialism, nationalism and the emergence of the independent Indian Union. It explores significant historiographical debates concerning the period while highlighting important new issues, especially those of gender, ecology, caste, and labour. The work combines an analysis of colonial and independent India in order to underscore ideologies, policies, and processes that shaped the colonial state and continue to mould the Indian nation.

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522

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Cambridge University Press

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1316165175

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9781316165171

Medicine, Race and Liberalism in British Bengal

Symptoms of Empire

By: Ishita Pande

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Medicine, Race and Liberalism in British Bengal

Symptoms of Empire

By: Ishita Pande

This book focuses on the entwinement of politics and medicine and power and knowledge in India during the age of empire. Using the powerful metaphor of ‘pathology’ - the science of the origin, nature, and course of diseases - the author develops and challenges a burgeoning literature on colonial medicine, moving beyond discussions of state medicine and the control of epidemics to everyday life, to show how medicine was a fundamental ideology of empire. Related to this point, and engaging with postcolonial histories of biopower and modernity, the book highlights the use of this racially grounded medicine in the formulation of modern selves and subjectivities in late colonial India. In tracing the cultural determinants of biological race theory and contextualizing the understanding of race as pathology, the book demonstrates how racialism was compatible with the ideologies and policies of imperial liberalism. Medicine, Race and Liberalism in British Bengal brings together the study of modern South Asia, race theory, colonialism and empire and the history of medicine. It highlights the powerful role played by the idea of ‘pathology’ in the rationalization of imperial liberalism and the subsequent projects of modernity embraced by native experts in Bengal in the ‘long’ nineteenth century.

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Routledge

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1136972404

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9781136972409

Video Culture in India

The Analog Era

By: Ishita Tiwary

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Video Culture in India

The Analog Era

By: Ishita Tiwary

Media plays a significant role in reshaping, restructuring, and recalibrating the existing understandings of society and politics, giving birth to new cultural forms. Video, as a medium, captures not only real-time events but also the ethos of a milieu. Video Culture in India: The Analog Era narrates the history of video technology in India since its introduction in the 1980s, locating the moment within the country's socio-political context. It aims to provide a comprehensive understanding of video technology in post-1980s India: one that speaks to its global history and context and fills the lacunae in the existing literature of the field. The monograph draws on diverse oral histories, discarded tapes, and forgotten archives to unravel the history of analog video in India. Specifically, it looks at the widespread popularity of the marriage video, the little-known history of the video-film, the intensity associated with the video-news magazine, and the explosive imagination attached to the religious video. Analysing the multi-dimensionality of video provides the context for a better understanding of the proliferation of video culture in contemporary sites such as television news channels, digital photography, WhatsApp videos, and streaming. As the first full-length study of analog video production and circulation in India, this book invokes the forgotten video era in India.

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241

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Oxford University Press

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0198913249

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9780198913245

Political Economy of Class, Caste and Gender

A Study of Rural Dalit Labourers in India

By: Ishita Mehrotra

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Political Economy of Class, Caste and Gender

A Study of Rural Dalit Labourers in India

By: Ishita Mehrotra

This book examines the structures of power and hierarchies within the agrarian political economy in India, with a focus on gender. It analyses various forms of inequalities within rural structures while situating the position of women and Dalit agriculture labourers within these discriminate networks of social exclusion, political marginalisation and poverty. The book maps the impacts of neoliberal capitalist globalisation on agrarian relations to identify who labourers are and how rural diversification is shaped by class, caste and gender hierarchies specifically in the villages of eastern Uttar Pradesh. It looks at occupational patterns of women workers, labour relations and reconceptualisation of labour. The book documents the experiences of exploitation as well as forms of resistance and collective action of rural women labourers. In doing this, the book deals with processes witnessed across the global South – rural distress, depeasantisation, migration, feminisation of agriculture as well as identity-based inequalities in rural labour markets. Rich in empirical data, the book will be useful for scholars and researchers of labour studies, women’s studies, political economy, agrarian economy, agrarian sociology, rural sociology, sociology, development studies and political studies.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000556247

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Women, Labour and the Economy in India

From Migrant Menservants to Uprooted Girl Children Maids

By: Deepita Chakravarty,Ishita Chakravarty

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Women, Labour and the Economy in India

From Migrant Menservants to Uprooted Girl Children Maids

By: Deepita Chakravarty,Ishita Chakravarty

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Book's by Ishita Chakravarty

Women, Labour and the Economy in India

Women, Labour and the Economy in India

A History of Modern India

A History of Modern India

Medicine, Race and Liberalism in British Bengal

Medicine, Race and Liberalism in British Bengal

Video Culture in India

Video Culture in India

Political Economy of Class, Caste and Gender

Political Economy of Class, Caste and Gender

Women, Labour and the Economy in India

Women, Labour and the Economy in India

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