Sita's Daughters: Coming Out of Purdah
The Rajput Women of Khalapur Revisited
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 8 July 1993
- ISBN 9780195080353
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages392 pages
- Size 235x154x24 mm
- Weight 564 g
- Language English
- Illustrations halftones, line figures, tables 0
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Long description:
Leigh Minturn in this work recounts the dramatic changes in the role and status of Indian women in the Rajput caste of Khalapur that have taken place between 1955 and 1975. She explains the relationship of these changes to the decline in the observance of a complex system of customs collectively called purdah, which include the veiling of women's faces and bodies, subservient posture when speaking to men, separation of husbands and wives and deference of young wives to their mothers-in-law. The decline in the observance of the customs has both led to and been fostered by modernization. Unlike other studies of Indian women, Minturn preserves the individuality of her subjects.
`an admirable study of the effect of time and economic progress on some of India's most traditionally backward women ... What makes Sita's daughters such an excellent and fascinating book are the anthropological descriptions of life then and now; descriptions free from the jargon so dear to American scholars, Under Dr Minturn's pen, the Rejputs of Khalapur come to life'
Asian Affairs
