Coming of Age in Nineteenth-Century India: The Girl-Child and the Art of Playfulness by Ruby Lal

Coming of Age in Nineteenth-Century India: The Girl-Child and the Art of Playfulness

Ruby Lal

247 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction informative reflective slow-paced
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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 wer...

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