Courtly Indian Women in Late Imperial India
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Akbar Shah
Assistant Political Agent
Author_Angma Dey Jhala
British Political Officers
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colonial legal systems
Courtly Family
Courtly Women
dynastic politics
East India Company
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gender history
Hindu Marriage Act
Hindu Rajput
Honourable East India Company
Indigenous Male Elites
Indira Devi
Indore Zenana
Keshub Chandra Sen
Krishna Kumari
Madhavrao Scindia
marriage alliances
Nancy Miller
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Princely Politician
princely states
Rao Holkar
Sita Devi
succession disputes
Tihar Jail
Vijaya Raje
women's political agency in India
Young Man
Zenana Women
Product details
- ISBN 9781138663640
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 21 Jan 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Examines the political worldview of courtly and royal women in India during the late colonial and post-Independence period. This book offers a history of the zenana, which served as the 'women's courts' or 'female quarters of the palace', where women lived behind pardah in seclusion.
