Women and Labour in Late Colonial India: The Bengal Jute Industry

Women and Labour in Late Colonial India: The Bengal Jute Industry

UPSC Mains - GS1 English History
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    Samita Sen's history of laboring women in Bengal in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries considers how social constructions of gender shaped their lives. The author demonstrates how the long-term trends in the Indian economy devalued women's labor, establishing patterns of urban migration and changing gender equations within the family. She relates these trends to the spread of dowry, enforced widowhood and child marriage. The study will make a significant contribution to the understanding of the social and economic history of colonial India and to notions of gender construction.
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Women and Labour in Late Colonial India: The Bengal Jute Industry


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Category - UPSC
Subcategory - Mains - GS1
Language - English
Subject - History
Posted by - Gidigi Nithin
Posted on - 21 Nov, 2020
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