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Author: Uma Chakravarti
Publisher: SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd
Imprint: SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd
Weight: 0.310kg
ISBN: 9789381345443
ISBN 10: 9381345449
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 17 September 2018
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
"""The author appeals to young scholars to take up intensive religion-based studies…is another addition to rich contribution to feminist understanding of Indian society."" -- The Tribune The text is among the first critical feminist interventions and push-backs on the dominant discourse of caste that views caste as a consensual rather than oppressive system …. Gendering Caste is an excellent primer on caste and gender as bulwarks of Indian society and the role of the State in maintaining hierarchies. -- J-Caste: A Global Journal on Social Exclusion, Vol. 1, Issue 1 ""Chakravarti presents the complex and confounding process by which caste has become so entrenched in Hindu social life and, consequently, such a powerful (and often violent) tool in the subordination of women…. Chakravarti writes with clarity. Her erudition is deep and her research is extensive."" -- The Book Review Literary Trust, 08 March 2020"
""The author appeals to young scholars to take up intensive religion-based studies…is another addition to rich contribution to feminist understanding of Indian society."" -- The Tribune The text is among the first critical feminist interventions and push-backs on the dominant discourse of caste that views caste as a consensual rather than oppressive system …. Gendering Caste is an excellent primer on caste and gender as bulwarks of Indian society and the role of the State in maintaining hierarchies. -- J-Caste: A Global Journal on Social Exclusion, Vol. 1, Issue 1 ""Chakravarti presents the complex and confounding process by which caste has become so entrenched in Hindu social life and, consequently, such a powerful (and often violent) tool in the subordination of women…. Chakravarti writes with clarity. Her erudition is deep and her research is extensive."" -- The Book Review Literary Trust, 08 March 2020
Chakravarti presents the complex and confounding process by which caste has become so entrenched in Hindu social life and, consequently, such a powerful (and often violent) tool in the subordination of women.... Chakravarti writes with clarity. Her erudition is deep and her research is extensive. -- The Book Review Literary Trust, 08 March 2020 The text is among the first critical feminist interventions and push-backs on the dominant discourse of caste that views caste as a consensual rather than oppressive system .... Gendering Caste is an excellent primer on caste and gender as bulwarks of Indian society and the role of the State in maintaining hierarchies. -- J-Caste: A Global Journal on Social Exclusion, Vol. 1, Issue 1 The author appeals to young scholars to take up intensive religion-based studies...is another addition to rich contribution to feminist understanding of Indian society. -- The Tribune
The author appeals to young scholars to take up intensive religion-based studies...is another addition to rich contribution to feminist understanding of Indian society. -- The Tribune
Author Information
Uma Chakravarti is a feminist historian who taught at Miranda House, University of Delhi, from where she took early retirement in 1998. She has been associated with the women’s movement and the movement for democratic rights since the late seventies. She writes on Buddhism, early Indian history, the nineteenth century and on contemporary subjects. Among her films is Ek Inquilab Aur Aaya: Lucknow 1929–49. Maithreyi Krishnaraj, a pioneering scholar in Women’s Studies, is senior honorary fellow, Research Centre for Women’s Studies, SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai, and steering committee member of the Dr Avabai Wadia Archives.
