Ruby Lal
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3742820 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Ruby Lal |
| NOMBRES | Ruby |
| APELLIDO | Lal |
| FIRMA | LAL R |
| AFILIACIONES | Emory University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 10 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 1 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 10 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2001 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Vagabond Princess
A captivating biography of one of the world’s greatest adventurers, the itinerant Mughal Princess Gulbadan, based on her long-forgotten memoir Longlisted for the 2024 Cundill History Prize “Ruby Lal coaxes the remarkable Gulbadan out from the shadows of history.”—Sara Wheeler, Wall Street Journal Situated in the early decades of the magnificent Mughal Empire, this first ever biography of Princess Gulbadan offers an enthralling portrait of a chari…
Vagabond Princess
Coming of Age in Nineteenth-Century India
In this engaging and eloquent history, Ruby Lal traces the becoming of nineteenth-century Indian women through a critique of narratives of linear transition from girlhood to womanhood. In the north Indian patriarchal environment, women's lives were dominated by the expectations of the male universal, articulated most clearly in household chores and domestic duties. The author argues that girls and women in the early nineteenth century experienced…
Coming of Age in Nineteenth-Century India
Map I. India circa, 1860.
The Lure of the Archive
Gender and sharafat
This article considers two well-known texts that deal with questions of education and appropriate conduct for respectable Muslims in colonial India. The texts under scrutiny are Mirat al-Arus (The Bride's Mirror), and the Taubat-al-Nasuh (Repentance of Nasuh), completed in 1867–68 and 1873 respectively. The author was a Muslim publicist and a prolific writer who published numerous books in diverse genres. Nazir Ahmed (1830–1912) came from a famil…
Recasting the Women's Question
The woman question has loomed large in writings on colonial India. This essay extends the debate by focusing not exclusively on the woman, but on the imbricated figure of the girl-child/woman, a figure that finds increasing attention in the Hindi, Urdu and English commentaries of the nineteenth century. The function of the girl-child as it appears in these texts is to essentialize the woman so that even in the absence of discussions of the girl-c…
Historicizing the Harem
The 'Domestic world' of Peripatetic Kings
This essay seeks to analyse the nature and meaning of the family, household, marriage and the role of women in the 'country' life of the Mughal 'empire' in the sixteenth century. Focusing on the peripatetic lives of Babur and Humayun, and the instability of their political power, it tries to unearth the constraints and possibilities of 'domestic' life in such conditions. For this purpose, the various 'communities' that constituted the 'domestic w…
Gender and sharafat
This article considers two well-known texts that deal with questions of education and appropriate conduct for respectable Muslims in colonial India. The texts under scrutiny are Mirat al-Arus (The Bride's Mirror), and the Taubat-al-Nasuh (Repentance of Nasuh), completed in 1867–68 and 1873 respectively. The author was a Muslim publicist and a prolific writer who published numerous books in diverse genres. Nazir Ahmed (1830–1912) came from a famil…
The 'Domestic world' of Peripatetic Kings
This essay seeks to analyse the nature and meaning of the family, household, marriage and the role of women in the 'country' life of the Mughal 'empire' in the sixteenth century. Focusing on the peripatetic lives of Babur and Humayun, and the instability of their political power, it tries to unearth the constraints and possibilities of 'domestic' life in such conditions. For this purpose, the various 'communities' that constituted the 'domestic w…
Historicizing the Harem
Gender and sharafat
This article considers two well-known texts that deal with questions of education and appropriate conduct for respectable Muslims in colonial India. The texts under scrutiny are Mirat al-Arus (The Bride's Mirror), and the Taubat-al-Nasuh (Repentance of Nasuh), completed in 1867–68 and 1873 respectively. The author was a Muslim publicist and a prolific writer who published numerous books in diverse genres. Nazir Ahmed (1830–1912) came from a famil…
Recasting the Women's Question
The woman question has loomed large in writings on colonial India. This essay extends the debate by focusing not exclusively on the woman, but on the imbricated figure of the girl-child/woman, a figure that finds increasing attention in the Hindi, Urdu and English commentaries of the nineteenth century. The function of the girl-child as it appears in these texts is to essentialize the woman so that even in the absence of discussions of the girl-c…
The Lure of the Archive
Coming of Age in Nineteenth-Century India
In this engaging and eloquent history, Ruby Lal traces the becoming of nineteenth-century Indian women through a critique of narratives of linear transition from girlhood to womanhood. In the north Indian patriarchal environment, women's lives were dominated by the expectations of the male universal, articulated most clearly in household chores and domestic duties. The author argues that girls and women in the early nineteenth century experienced…
Coming of Age in Nineteenth-Century India
Map I. India circa, 1860.
Vagabond Princess
A captivating biography of one of the world’s greatest adventurers, the itinerant Mughal Princess Gulbadan, based on her long-forgotten memoir Longlisted for the 2024 Cundill History Prize “Ruby Lal coaxes the remarkable Gulbadan out from the shadows of history.”—Sara Wheeler, Wall Street Journal Situated in the early decades of the magnificent Mughal Empire, this first ever biography of Princess Gulbadan offers an enthralling portrait of a chari…
Vagabond Princess
History (10 obras) · Art (5 obras) · Gender Studies (4 obras) · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies (4 obras) · Literature (4 obras) · Sociology (4 obras) · Ancient history (3 obras) · Archaeology (3 obras) · Colonialism (3 obras) · Historical Economic and Social Studies (3 obras)