Specters of Mother India: the global restructuring of an Empire

Specters of Mother India tells the complex story of one episode that became the tipping point for an important historical transformation. The event at the center of the book is the massive international controversy that followed the 1927 publication of Mother India, an exposé written by the American...

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1. Verfasser: Sinha, Mrinalini 1960- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Durham Duke University Press 2006
Schriftenreihe:Radical perspectives
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Zusammenfassung:Specters of Mother India tells the complex story of one episode that became the tipping point for an important historical transformation. The event at the center of the book is the massive international controversy that followed the 1927 publication of Mother India, an exposé written by the American journalist Katherine Mayo. Mother India provided graphic details of a variety of social ills in India, especially those related to the status of women and to the particular plight of the country's child wives. According to Mayo, the roots of the social problems she chronicled lay in an irredeemable Hindu culture that rendered India unfit for political self-government. Mother India was reprinted many times in the United States, Great Britain, and India; it was translated into more than a dozen languages; and it was reviewed in virtually every major publication on five continents. Sinha provides a rich historical narrative of the controversy surrounding Mother India, from the book's publication through the passage in India of the Child Marriage Restraint Act in the closing months of 1929.
Beschreibung:Literaturverzeichnis Seite 336-360
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ISBN:9780822387978
DOI:10.1215/9780822387978

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