Maina Chawla Singh
Biographic Data
| ID | 1626729 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maina Chawla Singh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maina Chawla |
| FAMILY NAME | Singh |
| SIGNATURE | SINGH M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Schlumberger (Ireland) |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Are you Jewish?’”
This paper lies at the intersections of Jewish Anthropology, History, Diaspora Studies, and cross-cultural Jewish Studies. It intertwines two analytical trajectories. The first is the thematic core: extensive ethnographic research conducted among Indian Jewish communities living in Israel, some of whom made aliya over four decades ago. The second trajectory entails self-reflections on my subject-position as a non-Jewish, non-Israeli researcher co…
‘Hazards’ of Health and Discourses of Disease
Gender, Thrift and Indigenous Adaptations
This article examines the skills in money and the management of resources that were developed by women missionaries in India between the 1870s and the 1940s. Focusing on the strategies and initiatives of three physicians—Clara Swain, Anna Kugler and Edith Brown—it argues that women disrupted existing patriarchal arrangements by entering ‘male’ domains of finance and administration. Modest ventures were transformed into state institutions through …
Philanthropy, Voluntarism, and Women's Education in Colonial India
This study focuses on the Bethune School, Calcutta (founded 1849) to examine the interplay between philanthropy, women's education, and nationalist politics in colonial India. First, it analyzes the institution as a venture in collaborative philanthropy in which the role of the local Indian community was crucial and continuous. Secondly, this essay argues how within the historical context of nineteenth-century colonial India, such an institution …
Gender, Religion, and the Heathen Lands
Part I Chapter 1 The Missionary Scenario Chapter 2 Biblical Helpmeet and Evangelical Worker: The Missionary Wife Chapter 3 Darkness, Disease, The Zenana, and the Heathen Woman: Constructing Discourses and Saving Souls Chapter 4 Documenting Knowledge and Producing Texts: An Analysis of Missionary Literature Part II Chapter 5 Shifting Paradigms: Facing the Twentieth Century Chapter 6 Feminists, Philanthropists, Matriarchs, and Managers: The Single-…
Gender, Thrift and Indigenous Adaptations
This article examines the skills in money and the management of resources that were developed by women missionaries in India between the 1870s and the 1940s. Focusing on the strategies and initiatives of three physicians—Clara Swain, Anna Kugler and Edith Brown—it argues that women disrupted existing patriarchal arrangements by entering ‘male’ domains of finance and administration. Modest ventures were transformed into state institutions through …
Gender, Religion, and the Heathen Lands
Part I Chapter 1 The Missionary Scenario Chapter 2 Biblical Helpmeet and Evangelical Worker: The Missionary Wife Chapter 3 Darkness, Disease, The Zenana, and the Heathen Woman: Constructing Discourses and Saving Souls Chapter 4 Documenting Knowledge and Producing Texts: An Analysis of Missionary Literature Part II Chapter 5 Shifting Paradigms: Facing the Twentieth Century Chapter 6 Feminists, Philanthropists, Matriarchs, and Managers: The Single-…
Philanthropy, Voluntarism, and Women's Education in Colonial India
This study focuses on the Bethune School, Calcutta (founded 1849) to examine the interplay between philanthropy, women's education, and nationalist politics in colonial India. First, it analyzes the institution as a venture in collaborative philanthropy in which the role of the local Indian community was crucial and continuous. Secondly, this essay argues how within the historical context of nineteenth-century colonial India, such an institution …
‘Hazards’ of Health and Discourses of Disease
Gender, Thrift and Indigenous Adaptations
This article examines the skills in money and the management of resources that were developed by women missionaries in India between the 1870s and the 1940s. Focusing on the strategies and initiatives of three physicians—Clara Swain, Anna Kugler and Edith Brown—it argues that women disrupted existing patriarchal arrangements by entering ‘male’ domains of finance and administration. Modest ventures were transformed into state institutions through …
Are you Jewish?’”
This paper lies at the intersections of Jewish Anthropology, History, Diaspora Studies, and cross-cultural Jewish Studies. It intertwines two analytical trajectories. The first is the thematic core: extensive ethnographic research conducted among Indian Jewish communities living in Israel, some of whom made aliya over four decades ago. The second trajectory entails self-reflections on my subject-position as a non-Jewish, non-Israeli researcher co…
Sociology (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · History (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (2 works) · Ecology (2 works) · Economic growth (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works)