Invisible Women Visible Histories: Gender, Society and Polity in North India (Seventh to Twelfth Century AD)
Rangachari, Devika
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Book ID : 34424
ISBN-10 : 81-7304-808-8 / 8173048088
ISBN-13 : 978-81-7304-808-1 / 9788173048081
Place
of Publication :
Delhi
Year
of Publication :
2009
Edition : (First Edition)
Language : English
531p., Bib., Index, 23 cm.
CONTENTS
DESCRIPTION
This book examines certain gendered aspects of the early medieval period in north India through a study of prominent - but representative - regional kingdoms located in Kashmir, Kanauj and across Bengal and Bihar. The book shows that the role and status of women differed considerably according to their regional contexts. The picture, therefore, is not a unifies one, thereby stressing the fact that sweeping statements on women cannot be made to apply to early medieval north India as a whole. The pivotal importance of gender in any historical reconstructions of the early medieval period in north India is thereby underscored.
