Behind the veil : resistance, women and the everyday in colonial South Asia / edited by Anindita Ghosh. - Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. - x, 233 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Originally published: Delhi : Permanent Black, 2007.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

From the symbolic to the open : women's resistance in colonial Maharashtra / Padma Anagol -- Small acts of rebellion : women tell their photographs / Geraldine Forbes -- Wicked widows : law and faith in nineteenth-century public sphere debates / Tanika Sarkar -- Subtle subversions and presumptuous interventions : reforming women's health in Bhopal State in the early twentieth century / Siobhan Lambert-Hurley -- Gender, subalternity, and silence : recovering convict women's experiences from histories of transportation, c. 1780-1857 / Clare Anderson -- The litigious widow : inheritance disputes in colonial north India, 1875-1911 / Nita Verma Prasad -- A world of their very own : religion, pain, and subversion in Bengali homes in the nineteenth century / Anindita Ghosh.

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