Table of Contents

Preface Acknowledgments 1. The Practice of Femicide in Postcolonial India and the Discourse of Population Control within the Nation State 2. Center and Periphery in British India: Post-Enlightenment Discursive Construction of Daughters Buried under the Family Room 3. Social Mobility in Relation to Female Infanticide in Rajput Clans: British and Indigenous Contestations about Lineage Purity and Hypergamy 4. A Critical History of the Colonial Discourse of Infanticide Reform, 1800--1854 Part I: Infanticide Reform as Extra-Economic Extraction of Surplus 5. A Critical History of the Colonial Discourse of Infanticide Reform, 1800--1854 Part II: The Erasure of the Female Child under Population Discourse 6. Subaltern Traditions of Resistance to Rajput Patriarchy Articulated by Generations of Women within the Meera Tradition 7. The Meera Tradition as a Historic Embrace of the Poor and the Dispossessed Appendix: The Baee Nathee Case Notes Bibliography Index

About the Author

Rashmi Dube Bhatnagar is an independent scholar who has taught in India and the United States. Renu Dube is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Intercultural Communication at Boise State University. Reena Dube is Assistant Professor of Film, Literature, and Postcolonial Theory at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.