Artikel
Fallen through the nationalist and feminist grids of analysis : political campaigning of Indian women against indentured labour emigration
Verfasst von:
Nijhawan, Shobna
in:
Indian journal of gender studies
2014
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Heft:
1
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111 - 133 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Frauensolidarität | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Nijhawan, Shobna |
| In: | Indian journal of gender studies |
| Jahr: | 2014 |
| Heft: | 1 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| This article examines the Indian nationalist campaign against indentured labour emigration from British India in the early 20th century from a micro perspective, by exploring the interventions of the Prayag Mahila Samiti (Allahabad Women’s Association). The proceedings of a conference organised by the women’s organisation in 1917 reveal that its elite Indian women participants displayed sisterhood, patriotism and concern for emigrant male and female plantation workers in a manner that crossed the boundaries of gender, caste, class and the rural–urban divide. Their campaign operated within colonial civilising discourses while making use of middle-class nationalist idioms, claiming that the honour of Indians was threatened by the morally unrestrained and sexually exploited female labourers employed in plantation colonies. The campaign ultimately led to a petition to the Viceroy of India, Lord Chelmsford, marking it as the first instance of Indian women lobbying as political subjects. | |
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