Renu Dube is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Intercultural Communication at Boise State University.
Reena Dube is Assistant Professor of Film, Literature, and Postcolonial Theory at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
Preface
ix
Acknowledgments
xiii
The Practice of Femicide in Postcolonial India and the Discourse of Population Control within the Nation State
1
(28)
Center and Periphery in British India: Post-Enlightenment Discursive Construction of Daughters Buried under the Family Room
29
(28)
Social Mobility in Relation to Female Infanticide in Rajput Clans: British and Indigenous Contestations about Lineage Purity and Hypergamy
57
(112)
A Critical History of the Colonial Discourse of Infanticide Reform, 1800--1854
Part I: Infanticide Reform as an Extra-Economic Extraction of Surplus
101
(28)
A Critical History of the Colonial Discourse of Infanticide Reform, 1800--1854
Part II: The Erasure of the Female Child under Population Discourse
129
(40)
Subaltern Traditions of Resistance to Rajput Patriarchy Articulated by Generations of Women within the Meera Tradition
169
(36)
The Meera Tradition as a Historic Embrace of the Poor and the Dispossessed
205
(30)
Appendix: The Baee Nathee Case
235
(6)
Notes
241
(56)
Bibliography
297
(16)
Index
313
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