Women's agency and social change :: Assam and beyond /

Womens Agency and Social Change: Assam and Beyond focuses on varied oppression, power relations and ideologies embedded in the complex yet interdependent social, political, economic and legal structures, and womens subordination therein. British intervention, 1826-1947, by itself did not impact the...

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Main Author: Deka, Meeta
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Los Angeles : SAGE Publications, 2013.
Series:Sage studies on India's north east.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:Womens Agency and Social Change: Assam and Beyond focuses on varied oppression, power relations and ideologies embedded in the complex yet interdependent social, political, economic and legal structures, and womens subordination therein. British intervention, 1826-1947, by itself did not impact the agency aspect on women directly, but the emergence of new forces and factors sowed the seeds of womens agency to impact social change, even if minimal. In the post-Independence period, British colonial legacy perpetuated the subordination of women through caste and class hierarchy at seve.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9788132116547
8132116542

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