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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