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
Anne Feldhaus is Professor of Religious Studies at Arizona State University. She has published several books, including Water and Womanhood: Religious Meanings of Rivers in Maharashtra .
"Maharashtrian leaders have had an especially important influence in shaping the contemporary fate of women. A number of early social reformers were based here, as were important leaders of the reaction that derailed India's first 'female emancipation' movement. This book offers very rich materials on this movement and reaction, as well as additional valuable insights into Maharashtrian women's own perspectives and lives." -- Nancy Auer Falk, Western Michigan University
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