Nita Verma Prasad
Biographic Data
| ID | 2094592 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nita Verma Prasad |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nita Verma |
| FAMILY NAME | Prasad |
| SIGNATURE | PRASAD N V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Remaking Her Family for the Judges
Remaking Her Family for the Judges: Hindu widows and property rights in the colonial courts of North India, 1875–1911 Nita Verma Prasad This article complicates the oversimplified image of the hapless, pathetic Hindu widow, doubly victimized by patriarchy and the British colonial state and stripped of a social and economic existence. It does so by telling the stories of individual widows who lived in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century N…
Indian or Arabian
This article examines the conflict between British colonial authorities and the Hadrami community settled in Aden and central India in the late nineteenth century. Between 1866 and 1888, as Hadramis struggled to retain their social, cultural and material interests throughout the wider Indian Ocean region, local British imperialists, wary of these transoceanic contacts, insisted that they pick one side of the ocean or the other, literally. The con…
Wives, Widows, and Concubines
Reviewed by: Wives, Widows, and Concubines: The Conjugal Family Ideal in Colonial India Nita Verma Prasad Wives, Widows, and Concubines: The Conjugal Family Ideal in Colonial India. By Mytheli Sreenivas. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008). Drawing on an impressive array of sources, ranging from British colonial law reports to the native women’s press, Mytheli Sreenivas fills an important gap in the social history of colonial India with…
The Litigious Widow
Historical scholarship on the Hindu widow in colonial India tends to focus on several well-known issues that were embodied in legislative reforms during the nineteenth century. These include the abolition of widow-burning or sati (1829), the Hindu Widows’ Remarriage Act (1856), and the Age of Consent Act (1891).1 Reform of the widow’s condition was indeed hotly debated in the nineteenth century, and the ensuing legislation is doubtless worthy of …
Remaking Her Family for the Judges
Remaking Her Family for the Judges: Hindu widows and property rights in the colonial courts of North India, 1875–1911 Nita Verma Prasad This article complicates the oversimplified image of the hapless, pathetic Hindu widow, doubly victimized by patriarchy and the British colonial state and stripped of a social and economic existence. It does so by telling the stories of individual widows who lived in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century N…
Indian or Arabian
This article examines the conflict between British colonial authorities and the Hadrami community settled in Aden and central India in the late nineteenth century. Between 1866 and 1888, as Hadramis struggled to retain their social, cultural and material interests throughout the wider Indian Ocean region, local British imperialists, wary of these transoceanic contacts, insisted that they pick one side of the ocean or the other, literally. The con…
The Litigious Widow
Historical scholarship on the Hindu widow in colonial India tends to focus on several well-known issues that were embodied in legislative reforms during the nineteenth century. These include the abolition of widow-burning or sati (1829), the Hindu Widows’ Remarriage Act (1856), and the Age of Consent Act (1891).1 Reform of the widow’s condition was indeed hotly debated in the nineteenth century, and the ensuing legislation is doubtless worthy of …
Wives, Widows, and Concubines
Reviewed by: Wives, Widows, and Concubines: The Conjugal Family Ideal in Colonial India Nita Verma Prasad Wives, Widows, and Concubines: The Conjugal Family Ideal in Colonial India. By Mytheli Sreenivas. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008). Drawing on an impressive array of sources, ranging from British colonial law reports to the native women’s press, Mytheli Sreenivas fills an important gap in the social history of colonial India with…
Indian or Arabian
This article examines the conflict between British colonial authorities and the Hadrami community settled in Aden and central India in the late nineteenth century. Between 1866 and 1888, as Hadramis struggled to retain their social, cultural and material interests throughout the wider Indian Ocean region, local British imperialists, wary of these transoceanic contacts, insisted that they pick one side of the ocean or the other, literally. The con…
Remaking Her Family for the Judges
Remaking Her Family for the Judges: Hindu widows and property rights in the colonial courts of North India, 1875–1911 Nita Verma Prasad This article complicates the oversimplified image of the hapless, pathetic Hindu widow, doubly victimized by patriarchy and the British colonial state and stripped of a social and economic existence. It does so by telling the stories of individual widows who lived in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century N…
Colonialism (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Religious studies (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Caste (2 works)