Suttee Sainthood through selflessness: pain of repression or power of devotion? [0.03%]
通过自我牺牲成为圣徒：束缚的痛苦还是奉献的力量？
Susmita Roye
Susmita Roye
The immolation of Hindu widows has generated much horror while remaining tenaciously mixed with clandestine admiration. Reported in many eyewitness accounts and literary works, the topic has given rise to highly contested sociocultural, leg...
Bengali masculinity and the national-masculine: some conjectures for interpretation [0.03%]
孟加拉语的男子气概与民族-男性气质：一些可供参考的猜想
Saayan Chattopadhyay
Saayan Chattopadhyay
This article examines how Bengali masculinity has been negotiated between national and ethnic/local notions of identity and suggests a new way of understanding this issue. Within the specific historiography of Bengali masculinity, concerns ...
Working women households and time-saving consumption: empirical evidence from Kerala [0.03%]
女性就业家庭与时间节省型消费——来自印度喀拉拉邦的证据
Shalina Susan Mathew
Shalina Susan Mathew
This article explores the impact of labour force participation of Indian women on the consumption expenditure of their households. Field survey data were collected from working-wife and non-working wife households in Kerala, the state in In...
Memsahibs and health in colonial medical writings, c. 1840 to c. 1930 [0.03%]
殖民地医学著作中的贵妇人与健康问题（约1840至1930年）
Indrani Sen
Indrani Sen
Medical literature in colonial India, written mainly for the guidance of colonial personnel, became an important tool for dissemination of western medical knowledge and information but also reinforced wider colonial agendas. Focused mainly ...
Two accounts of the colonised "other" in South Asia re-exploring alterity [0.03%]
试从南亚看殖民地的“他者”——再探“异质性”概念
Soumen Mukherjee
Soumen Mukherjee
Taking examples from South Asia, this article shows how British colonial knowledge about the non-European "other" hinged substantially on the participation of sections of that other, especially in the context of liminal groups, for whom no ...
Expressing the self in Bengali women's autobiographies in the twentieth century [0.03%]
20世纪孟加拉语女性自传中的自我表达
Sutanuka Ghosh
Sutanuka Ghosh
This article discusses evidence from the autobiographical writings of three Bengali women to explore expressions of the self in such literature. Sarala Devi Chaudhurani, Santisudha Ghosh and Manikuntala Sen were contemporaries, all three ac...
Bonded labour practice in Nepal the promise of education as a magnet of child bondedness [0.03%]
尼泊尔的债务抵押劳工制度——教育之下的童工问题分析
Birendra Raj Giri
Birendra Raj Giri
This article highlights that in Nepal, the promise of education seems to have become a magnet of child bondedness. After some government intervention in 2000, the haliya and kamaiya bonded labour practices have become a socially stigmatisin...