Gender, Caste, and Religious Identities: Restructuring Class in Colonial Punjab

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Gender, Caste, and Religious Identities: Restructuring Class in Colonial Punjab By Anshu Malhotra
2005 | 246 Pages | ISBN: 0195672402 | PDF | 3 MB


The book studies the interplay of gender, caste, and religious identities in colonial Punjab. It focuses on the middle-class and how it brings into play gender and caste norms to counter the erosion of its economic advatages, and the subservience of its social and religious institutions under colonialism.