• ISBN13: 9789384082024
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Sociology and Anthropology
• Publisher: Ratna Sagar
• Publisher Imprint: PrimusBook
• Publication Date: June 15, 2014
• Pages: 380
• Original Price: INR 1395.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 685 grams

Beyond the Private World explores the status of Indian women, through the ages, in the framework of the private-public dichotomy, as reflected in their lives. Keeping in mind the Habermasian concept of ‘public sphere’ as a reference point, yet mindful of the incongruity between the Eurocentric ideas and the Indian reality this collection of essays appraises the position of Indian women in the pre-modern period with reference to tradition. It also provides glimpses of the various social movements and struggles to overcome patriarchy as well as the nationalist/democratic movements in colonial and post-colonial India that filtered into the ‘private sphere’ and transformed it.

Subrata Bagchi is Associate Professor of Political Science at Kidderpore College, University of Calcutta. His doctoral work focuses on the problems of urban development, governance and politics in the small towns of India. The focal area of his current studies is gender and different human right related issues of the marginal population of India. He is the editor of the on-line journal Inclusive.