Padma Anagol
Biographic Data
| ID | 1626461 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Padma Anagol |
| GIVEN NAMES | Padma |
| FAMILY NAME | Anagol |
| SIGNATURE | ANAGOL P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Historicising Child Sexual Abuse in Early Modern and Modern India: Patriarchal Norms, Violence and Agency of Child-Wives and Young Women in the Institution of Child Marriage
Although child-bride harm was uncovered during the Age of Consent controversy (1890s), no attempt has been made to excavate its origins in Indian history. Rectifying this void, I investigate the phenomena of child sexual abuse in early modern and modern regions of Bengal and Maharashtra. I adopt a female-child-centred approach that involves engaging with the perspectives of girls and young women. Some questions raised are: Did a girl have rights?…
Indian Christian women and indigenous feminism, c.1850–c.1920
This chapter focuses on the twin issues of consciousness and assertion among Indian women in the colonial era. It attempts to trace the character of the indigenous feminism and determines whether the consciousness went beyond the question of individual empowerment to encompass a wider conception of women as a group which could be used as the basis for collective action. For high-caste educated women like Pandita Ramabai, Krupabai Satthianadhan an…
The Emergence of Feminism in India, 1850-1920
Grounded in a variety of rich and diverse source materials such as periodicals meant for women and edited by women, song and cookbooks, book reviews and court records, the author of this pioneering study mobilises claims for the existence of an Indian feminism in the nineteenth century. Anagol traces the ways in which Indian women engaged with the power structures-both colonialist and patriarchical-which sought to define them. Through her analysi…
Rethinking Gender and Justice in South Asia, 1772–2013
Amartya Sen has compellingly argued in The Idea of Justice that far from being a value-neutral term, ‘justice’ is a relative one, with competing claims made on it by different parties in any given context. Does this mean that\njustice is an empty concept, bereft of any meaning or devoid of self explanatory power? This special issue seeks to find answers to this question. ‘Justice’ came to embrace myriad meanings for the British Empire. Enlightenm…
Languages of Injustice: The Culture of ‘Prize-Giving’ and Information Gathering on Female Infanticide in Nineteenth-Century India
Areas that remain understudied on female infanticide in India are information-gathering and the collaboration of elites. I examine the Company government’s shift from coercion to palliative approaches such as the institution of prize-cultures in nineteenth-century western India. Questions asked are: what was the role of reformers such as Bhau Daji as prize-winner in the essay competitions? how did it change notions of justice? How was the body of…
Age of Consent and Child Marriage in I ndia
Anti‐colonial struggles have been narrowly interpreted so far, in terms of political self‐determination in the making of sovereign nation‐states. However, the impressive historical literature on Indian child marriage and the age of consent for girls has provided a context for locating the overlapping of the politics of nationalisms and sexualities. This entry reveals how imperialism as a global system allowed Britain to legitimate its continued r…
Gender, religion and anti-feminism in Hindu right wing writings: Notes from a nineteenth century Indian woman-patriot's text ‘Essays in the Service of a Nation’
Feminist Inheritances and Foremothers: The beginnings of feminism in modern India
This article illumines the nature and content of modern Indian feminism, tracing its beginnings in the great nineteenth‐century social and religious reform movements in Maharashtra, Western India. Early feminist theory is tracked in the theories of women’s subordination proposed by Christian and Hindu feminists. The linguistic sophistication in feminist genealogy is revealed through women’s critiques of Indian society and gender relations, especi…
Agency, Periodisation and Change in the Gender and Women's History of Colonial India
The paper begins with a critique of the ‘imperialism‐nationalism’ paradigm and its concomitant privileging of the period 1885–1947, which has dominated the writing of modern Indian history. It is argued here that the fixation with the ‘birth‐of‐the‐nation’ theme has led to the neglect of women's agency; that it has resulted in many inconsistencies, dilemmas and unresolved issues regarding a range of topics within Indian gender‐relations; and that…
The Emergence of the Female Criminal in India: Infanticide and Survival Under the Raj
Literature as Ideology: Rudyard Kipling's Creative World
Agency, Periodisation and Change in the Gender and Women's History of Colonial India
The paper begins with a critique of the ‘imperialism‐nationalism’ paradigm and its concomitant privileging of the period 1885–1947, which has dominated the writing of modern Indian history. It is argued here that the fixation with the ‘birth‐of‐the‐nation’ theme has led to the neglect of women's agency; that it has resulted in many inconsistencies, dilemmas and unresolved issues regarding a range of topics within Indian gender‐relations; and that…
Feminist Inheritances and Foremothers: The beginnings of feminism in modern India
This article illumines the nature and content of modern Indian feminism, tracing its beginnings in the great nineteenth‐century social and religious reform movements in Maharashtra, Western India. Early feminist theory is tracked in the theories of women’s subordination proposed by Christian and Hindu feminists. The linguistic sophistication in feminist genealogy is revealed through women’s critiques of Indian society and gender relations, especi…
The Emergence of the Female Criminal in India: Infanticide and Survival Under the Raj
Rethinking Gender and Justice in South Asia, 1772–2013
Amartya Sen has compellingly argued in The Idea of Justice that far from being a value-neutral term, ‘justice’ is a relative one, with competing claims made on it by different parties in any given context. Does this mean that\njustice is an empty concept, bereft of any meaning or devoid of self explanatory power? This special issue seeks to find answers to this question. ‘Justice’ came to embrace myriad meanings for the British Empire. Enlightenm…
Literature as Ideology: Rudyard Kipling's Creative World
The Emergence of the Female Criminal in India: Infanticide and Survival Under the Raj
Agency, Periodisation and Change in the Gender and Women's History of Colonial India
The paper begins with a critique of the ‘imperialism‐nationalism’ paradigm and its concomitant privileging of the period 1885–1947, which has dominated the writing of modern Indian history. It is argued here that the fixation with the ‘birth‐of‐the‐nation’ theme has led to the neglect of women's agency; that it has resulted in many inconsistencies, dilemmas and unresolved issues regarding a range of topics within Indian gender‐relations; and that…
Feminist Inheritances and Foremothers: The beginnings of feminism in modern India
This article illumines the nature and content of modern Indian feminism, tracing its beginnings in the great nineteenth‐century social and religious reform movements in Maharashtra, Western India. Early feminist theory is tracked in the theories of women’s subordination proposed by Christian and Hindu feminists. The linguistic sophistication in feminist genealogy is revealed through women’s critiques of Indian society and gender relations, especi…
Gender, religion and anti-feminism in Hindu right wing writings: Notes from a nineteenth century Indian woman-patriot's text ‘Essays in the Service of a Nation’
Age of Consent and Child Marriage in I ndia
Anti‐colonial struggles have been narrowly interpreted so far, in terms of political self‐determination in the making of sovereign nation‐states. However, the impressive historical literature on Indian child marriage and the age of consent for girls has provided a context for locating the overlapping of the politics of nationalisms and sexualities. This entry reveals how imperialism as a global system allowed Britain to legitimate its continued r…
Indian Christian women and indigenous feminism, c.1850–c.1920
This chapter focuses on the twin issues of consciousness and assertion among Indian women in the colonial era. It attempts to trace the character of the indigenous feminism and determines whether the consciousness went beyond the question of individual empowerment to encompass a wider conception of women as a group which could be used as the basis for collective action. For high-caste educated women like Pandita Ramabai, Krupabai Satthianadhan an…
The Emergence of Feminism in India, 1850-1920
Grounded in a variety of rich and diverse source materials such as periodicals meant for women and edited by women, song and cookbooks, book reviews and court records, the author of this pioneering study mobilises claims for the existence of an Indian feminism in the nineteenth century. Anagol traces the ways in which Indian women engaged with the power structures-both colonialist and patriarchical-which sought to define them. Through her analysi…
Rethinking Gender and Justice in South Asia, 1772–2013
Amartya Sen has compellingly argued in The Idea of Justice that far from being a value-neutral term, ‘justice’ is a relative one, with competing claims made on it by different parties in any given context. Does this mean that\njustice is an empty concept, bereft of any meaning or devoid of self explanatory power? This special issue seeks to find answers to this question. ‘Justice’ came to embrace myriad meanings for the British Empire. Enlightenm…
Languages of Injustice: The Culture of ‘Prize-Giving’ and Information Gathering on Female Infanticide in Nineteenth-Century India
Areas that remain understudied on female infanticide in India are information-gathering and the collaboration of elites. I examine the Company government’s shift from coercion to palliative approaches such as the institution of prize-cultures in nineteenth-century western India. Questions asked are: what was the role of reformers such as Bhau Daji as prize-winner in the essay competitions? how did it change notions of justice? How was the body of…
Historicising Child Sexual Abuse in Early Modern and Modern India: Patriarchal Norms, Violence and Agency of Child-Wives and Young Women in the Institution of Child Marriage
Although child-bride harm was uncovered during the Age of Consent controversy (1890s), no attempt has been made to excavate its origins in Indian history. Rectifying this void, I investigate the phenomena of child sexual abuse in early modern and modern regions of Bengal and Maharashtra. I adopt a female-child-centred approach that involves engaging with the perspectives of girls and young women. Some questions raised are: Did a girl have rights?…
Sociology (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · History (8 works) · Law (6 works) · Feminism (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies (5 works) · History (5 works)