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Author Bhatnagar, Rashmi Dube.
Title Female infanticide in India : a feminist cultural history / Rashmi Dube Bhatnagar, Renu Dube & Reena Dube.
OCLC 62750466
ISBN 1423743717 (electronic bk.)
Publisher Albany : State University of New York Press, [2005]
©2005
Description xiv, 320 pages ; 24 cm
LC Subject heading/s Infant girls -- Violence against -- India -- History.
Infanticide -- India -- History.
Women -- Violence against -- India -- History.
Women -- India -- Social conditions.
Feminism -- India.
India -- Population.
India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947.
Other
Genre heading/s		 Electronic books.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-312) and index.
Contents The practice of femicide in postcolonial India and the discourse of population control within the nation state -- Center and periphery in British India : post-enlightenment discursive construction of daughters buried under the family room -- Social mobility in relation to female infanticide in Rajput clans : British and indigenous contestations about lineage purity and hypergamy -- A critical history of the colonial discourse of infanticide reform, 1800-1854, part I : infanticide reform as an extra-economic extraction of surplus -- A critical history of the colonial discourse of infanticide reform, 1800-1854, part II : the erasure of the female child under population discourse -- Subaltern traditions of resistance to Rajput patriarchy articulated by generations of women within the Meera tradition -- The Meera tradition as a historic embrace of the poor and the dispossessed -- Appendix : the Baee Nathee case.
Reproduction note Electronic reproduction. Boulder, Colo. : NetLibrary, 2005. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to NetLibrary affiliated libraries.
Restrictions Single user license access.
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