IJSSER

Title: CHANGING DISCOURSE ON INDIAN WOMEN IN THE COLONIAL PERIOD: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE
Authors: Dr Dipti Tripathi
\|\| \|\|
Dr Dipti Tripathi Assistant Professor, Department of History, Ramjas College, University of Delhi
MLA 8 Tripathi, Dr Dipti. "CHANGING DISCOURSE ON INDIAN WOMEN IN THE COLONIAL PERIOD: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, vol. 3, no. 12, Dec. 2018, pp. 7657-7664, ijsser.org/more2018.php?id=564. Accessed Dec. 2018. APA 6 Tripathi, D. (2018, December). CHANGING DISCOURSE ON INDIAN WOMEN IN THE COLONIAL PERIOD: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE. Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research, 3(12), 7657-7664. Retrieved from ijsser.org/more2018.php?id=564 Chicago Tripathi, Dr Dipti. "CHANGING DISCOURSE ON INDIAN WOMEN IN THE COLONIAL PERIOD: A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE." Int. j. of Social Science and Economic Research 3, no. 12 (December 2018), 7657-7664. Accessed December, 2018. ijsser.org/more2018.php?id=564.
References [1]. Forbes, Geraldine. Women in Modern India. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996, [2]. Kumar, Radha. The History of Doing: An Illustrated Account of Movements for Women’s Rights and Feminism in India, 1800-1900. Delhi: Zubaan, 1997 [3]. Patel,Sujata, ‘Construction and Reconstruction of Woman in Gandhi’, Economic and Political Weekly, 23(8), 20 February 1988 [4]. Gupta, Charu, Gendering Colonial India: Reforms, Print, Caste and Communalism, Orient Blackswan, 2012 [5]. Sangari, K and S Vaid, Recasting Women: Essays in Colonial History, Zubaan, 2013 (First Edition 1989) [6]. Mani, Lata, Contentious Traditions: The Debate on Sati in Colonial India, in Sangari, K and S Vaid, Recasting Women: Essays in Colonial History, Zubaan, 2013 [7]. Chatterjee, Partha, The Nationalist Resolution of the Women's Question, in Sangari, K and S Vaid, Recasting Women: Essays in Colonial History, Zubaan, 2013
Abstract: The history of women’s question in India can be conveniently begun from the Nineteenth Century. This was the time when ‘women’s question’ became an integral part of the ongoing social debate and social reform. We find the first generation of Indian male reformers charged and practicing with the idea of reform under a certain colonial environment. Largely the upper caste-middle class English educated gentry of this period was responding to the orientalist understanding about India and James Millian ‘ladder of civilization’. James Mill in his book, ‘History of British India’ argued that ‘women’s position could be used as an indicator of society’s advancement or backwardness. Thus, the Indian middle - classmen were facing criticism at the hands of the colonial state and western ideologues on cultural aspects particularly regarding the treatment of women in India.

IJSSER is Member of