Gender, Caste, and Religious Identities: Restructuring Class in Colonial Punjab - Hardcover

Malhotra, Anshu

9780195656480: Gender, Caste, and Religious Identities: Restructuring Class in Colonial Punjab

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195656482 ISBN 13: 9780195656480

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2002

The book studies the interplay of gender, caste, and religious identities in colonial Punjab. It focuses on the middle-class and how it brings into play gender and caste norms to counter the erosion of its economic advatages, and the subservience of its social and religious institutions under colonialism.

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About the Author:

Anshu Malhotra is at Dehli University.

Review:

Anshu Malhotra's book is indeed a pioneering intervention in the social history of Pubjab ... the author has offered us a fresh perspective to understand Punjabi society. The Book Review South Asia Special, New Delhi

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