Ruby Lal
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3742820 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ruby Lal |
| PRENOMES | Ruby |
| SOBRENOME | Lal |
| ASSINATURA | LAL R |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Department of History, The Johns Hopkins University, 3400 North Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 8 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 1 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 8 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2001 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Vagabond Princess
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
Map I. India circa, 1860.
Vagabond Princess
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