Against the Madness of Manu: B.R Ambedkar's Writings on Brahmanical Patriarchy
Sharmila Rege
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A feminist reading of Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar's writings, by Sharmila Rege.
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Sharmila Rege
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A feminist reading of Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar's writings, by Sharmila Rege.
A proposal to make India safe for women, through a gender equal and just society by 2047.
An accessible tour of feminist thinking through Indian debates on the family, the body, sexuality, desire and the law.
Bina Agarwal
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A landmark study arguing that women's own rights to land are central to their well-being and equality across South Asia.
ed. Sharmila Rege
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Ambedkar's writings on caste and women, introduced by Rege as the work of a feminist thinker.
Ritu Menon and Kamla Bhasin
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Uses women's testimonies and government records to trace the abduction, 'recovery' and resettlement of women after 1947, and how the state decided where they belonged.
Prem Chowdhry
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How caste councils and families police marriage choices in Haryana, and the violence against couples who defy them.
Shows how colonial officials and Indian reformers argued over sati while the women burned were left out of the debate.
An argument for women's freedom to take risks and make choices, against protection that becomes control.
A reader on the history and debates of Indian feminism, from colonial reform to contemporary politics.
Chandra Talpade Mohanty
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Collects Mohanty's essays, including 'Under Western Eyes', on decolonising feminism and building solidarity across borders.
Essays on how caste and gender shape each other in modern India.
Caste and genderAnthologyIndiaEnglish390 pages
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Tanika Sarkar
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Essays on how nineteenth-century Bengali nationalism, religion and print culture built the ideal of the Hindu wife.
Flavia Agnes
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A history of the personal laws of India's communities and how they shape women's rights in marriage, divorce and property.
An anthropology of how women lived with the violence of Partition and the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in everyday life.
An ethnography of rape trials showing how courts, police and medical examinations turn survivors' testimony into doubt.
ed. Kumkum Sangari and Sudesh Vaid
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Influential essays on how colonial rule and social reform reshaped patriarchy, caste and class in India.
Questions feminism's reliance on law and rights through debates on abortion, sexual violence and the Uniform Civil Code.
Srila Roy
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Women's memories of the Naxalbari movement in Bengal, and the gendered violence within radical politics.
A biography of the nineteenth-century reformer Pandita Ramabai and her challenge to Brahmanical patriarchy.
ed. Ruth Vanita and Saleem Kidwai
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Two thousand years of writing on love between women and between men, from Indian literature and history.
Urvashi Butalia
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Oral histories of Partition from women, children and Dalits, recovering the abductions, killings and silences missing from official accounts.
Looks at how the Indian state, law and citizenship shape women's lives.
Law and genderIndiaEnglish313 pages
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ed. Kalpana Kannabiran
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Essays on everyday violence against women in India, from the home to the workplace and the state.
Shilpa Phadke, Sameera Khan and Shilpa Ranade
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Argues that women's right to loiter in the city, without purpose or excuse, is the real test of their access to public space.
A two-volume anthology of women's writing in India across languages and centuries.
AnthologyWomen's literatureIndiaEnglish576 pages
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A wide-ranging reader of key writing from Indian women's studies and the women's movement.
Sharmila Rege
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Translations of Dalit women's life narratives from Marathi, with Rege's argument for a Dalit feminist standpoint.
