Courtly Indian women in late imperial India /
Jhala examines the political worldview of courtly and royal women in India during the late colonial and post-Independence period. It is a history of the Zenana, which served as the 'women's courts' or 'female quarters of the palace', where women lived behind pardah (literall...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; Brookfield, Vt. :
Pickering & Chatto,
2008.
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| Series: | Body, gender and culture ;
no. 1. |
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| Summary: | Jhala examines the political worldview of courtly and royal women in India during the late colonial and post-Independence period. It is a history of the Zenana, which served as the 'women's courts' or 'female quarters of the palace', where women lived behind pardah (literally translating as the 'veil' or 'curtain') in seclusion. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 244 pages). |
| Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-233) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1317314441 1781441456 1851965629 9781317314448 9781781441459 9781851965625 |