Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I. Women in Eighteenth-Century Maharashtra 1. Family Disputes, Family Violence: Reconstructing Women's Experience from Eighteenth-Century Historical Records
Anne B. Waters
2. Women in the Kotwal's Papers, Pune, 1767-1791
N. K. Wagle
3. The Dancing Girls of Maharashtra
V. S. Kadam
II. The Nineteenth-Century Debate: Conservatism and Reform 4. The Status and Image of Women in Nineteenth-Century Maharashtra: Vishnubawa Brahmachari's Views in the Context of Hindu Revival
Frank F. Conlon
5. Sexual Property/Sexual Violence: Wives in Late Nineteenth-Century Bombay
Jim Masselos
6. Child Brides and Child Mothers: The Age of Consent Controversy in Maharashtra as a Conflict of Perspectives on Women
Meera Kosambi
7. Gender Consciousness in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Maharashtra
Jayant Lele
8. Pandita Ramabai's Stri-Dharma Niti and Tarabai Shinde's Stri-Purus Tulana: The Inner Unity of the Texts
Vidyut Bhagwat
III. Some Contemporary Images 9. Women as Bullocks: A Self-Image of Maharashtrian Village Women
Sharon F. Kemp
10. Images of Women in a Maharashtrian Village: A Photo Essay
Hemalata C. Dandekar
11. Sharda: A Mahar Woman's Path to Selfhood
Maxine Berntsen
12. A Bibliographic Essay on Women in Maharashtra
Eleanor Zelliot
About the Contributors
Index