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October

A Note from the Series Editor Maithreyi Krishnaraj, Acknowledgements, Prologue, Understanding Caste, The Axis of Gender Stratification in India, Caste, Class and Gender: The Historical Roots of Brahmanical Patriarchy, The Formation of Patriarchy and the Subordination of Women, The Diversity of Patriarchal Practices, Critiques of Caste and Gender Stratification, Pre-Colonial Structures of Caste and Gender: An Eighteenth-Century Example, Caste in the Colonial Period, Caste and Gender in Contemporary India, Epilogue, Afterword: Caste and Gender in the New Millennium, Select Bibliography and Filmography, Index

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Uma Chakravarti is a feminist historian who taught at Miranda House, University of Delhi, from where she took early retirement in 1998. She has been associated with the women’s movement and the movement for democratic rights since the late seventies. She writes on Buddhism, early Indian history, the nineteenth century and on contemporary subjects. Among her films is Ek Inquilab Aur Aaya: Lucknow 1929–49. Maithreyi Krishnaraj, a pioneering scholar in Women’s Studies, is senior honorary fellow, Research Centre for Women’s Studies, SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai, and steering committee member of the Dr Avabai Wadia Archives.

Theorizing Feminism

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