Images of Women in Maharashtrian Society Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
I	Women in Eighteenth-Century Maharashtra
1	Family Disputes, Family Violence: Reconstructing Women's Experience from Eighteenth-Century Historical Records	3
2	Women in the Kotwal's Papers, Pune, 1767-1791	15
3	The Dancing Girls of Maharashtra	61
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	93
5	Sexual Property/Sexual Violence: Wives in Late Nineteenth-Century Bombay	113
6	Child Brides and Child Mothers: The Age of Consent Controversy in Maharashtra as a Conflict of Perspectives on Women	135
7	Gender Consciousness in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Maharashtra	163
8	Pandita Ramabai's Stri-Dharma Niti and Tarabai Shinde's Stri-Purus Tulana: The Inner Unity of the Texts	192
III	Some Contemporary Images
9	Women as Bullocks: A Self-Image of Maharashtrian Village Women	217
10	Images of Women in a Maharashtrian Village: A Photo Essay	240
11	Sharda: A Mahar Woman's Path to Selfhood	248
12	A Bibliographic Essay on Women in Maharashtra	256
	About the Contributors	273
	Index	277