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Article: The Veiled Women: Shifting Gender Equations in Rural Haryana, 1880-1990.(Brief Article)
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- The Historian
- Article date:
- March 22, 1996
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By Prem Chowdhry. (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1994. Pp. xix, 461. $29.95.)
This book provides a comprehensive, scholarly, albeit bleak analysis of women in Haryana, the second richest state in India during the past century. Chowdry's provocative conclusions challenge simplistic assumptions about women in the developing world that equate economic progress with improvement in the status of women. Chowdhry employs a variety of scholarly and popular sources in her study. In addition to the use of statistical data and archival material in India and England, she has scrupulously employed oral history to illustrate the ways in which people perceive their own ...