TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2008//
TI  - Agency, Periodisation and Change in the Gender and Women's History of Colonial India
JO  - Gender and history
A1  - Anagol, Padma
SP  - 603
EP  - 627
VL  - 20
IS  - 3
N2  - The paper begins with a critique of the ‘imperialism-nationalism’ paradigm and its concomitant privileging of the period 1885–1947, which has dominated the writing of modern Indian history. It is argued here that the fixation with the ‘birth-of-the-nation’ theme has led to the neglect of women's agency; that it has resulted in many inconsistencies, dilemmas and unresolved issues regarding a range of topics within Indian gender-relations; and that this periodisation inhibits the reclamation of terms such as ‘feminist’ and ‘feminism’. The second half of the essay proposes that women's agency can be recovered via a new chronology and a new template for understanding agency within which scholars will be enabled to retrieve the conscious voices of Indian women and record change in gender relations.<p /> 
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SN  - 0953-5233
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -