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Full-Text Articles in South and Southeast Asian Languages and Societies
Mandala Vol. 8, Center For Southeast Asian Studies
Regional Cooperation In South Asia, Papia Guha
Regional Cooperation In South Asia, Papia Guha
Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects
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Widows, Education And Social Change In Twentieth Century Banaras, Nita Kumar
Widows, Education And Social Change In Twentieth Century Banaras, Nita Kumar
CMC Faculty Publications and Research
In the first half of this century, some one dozen women in Banaras played key rotes in channelling the educational movement into new directions, expanding its agenda to include girls, especially poor girls. These women stand out as pioneering in that they founded schools, dynamic in the way they administered and expanded them, and radical in the vision they had for their students. What makes the case of these women particularly interesting is that they were mostly widows. They rejected the familiar stereotypes for widows through their activism, but in subtle ways that retained for them the respect of society …
Distant Encounters: Travel Literature And The Shifting Image Of The Toraja Of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, Kathleen M. Adams
Distant Encounters: Travel Literature And The Shifting Image Of The Toraja Of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, Kathleen M. Adams
Kathleen M. Adams