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Dr Padma Anagol  -  BA, MA, MPhil, PhD (Lond.)


BOOKS 

Sole Author

1. The Emergence of Feminism in India, 1850-1920, (Aldershot UK and Burlington VT USA: Ashgate, 2006), [ISBN:   0754634116], x + pp.264.

For a sample of book reviews see

i)  By Prof. Shefali Chandra, in Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, 9:1, 2008

http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_colonialism_and_colonial_history/v009/9.1chandra.html

ii)  By Prof. Geetanjali Gangoli, in Journal of Gender Studies, Volume 17 Issue 1 2008. http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/authors/cjgsauth.asp

iii)  By Prof. G. Forbes in Labour/Le Travail, No.61, Spring 2008.

http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/llt/61/br_19.html

iv)  By Dr. Andrea Major in http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=ASI July 2008, pp 250-253. http://journals.cambridge.org/download.php?file=%2FASI%2FASI5_02%2FS1479591408000089a.pdf&code=8fe5b31a4fac54553395fd739ff44a29

 

2.  The Political Economy of Nationalism, Lakshmibai Dravid and the Birth of the Hindu Right, (Monograph – forthcoming)

EDITED COLLECTIONS

Special Issue on ‘The Partition of India: The Human Dimension’, in Cultural and History Journal, (Guest Editor) Ian Talbot, Volume 6, Issue 4, December 2009, pp.393-536, [Berg Publishers ISSN 1478-0038, ISSN online 1478-0046, ISBN 9781847884381].

REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES

 ‘Feminist Inheritances and Foremothers: The beginnings of feminism in modern India’, Women’s History Review, Special Issue on ‘International Feminisms’, 19:4, 2010, pp. 523 – 546, ISSN: 1747-583X (electronic) 0961-2025 (paper) http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09612025.2011.638523

“Gender, religion and anti-feminism in Hindu right wing writings: Notes from a nineteenth century Indian woman-patriot’s text ‘Essays in the Service of a Nation’.” In Women Studies International Forum, (under revisions) http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/361/authorinstructions#89000

‘Agency, Periodisation and Change in the Gender and Women’s history of India’, Gender and History, Special Issue on the themes of ‘Gender, Change and Periodization’, Vol. 20, No.3, November 2008, pp.603-627. [ISSN 0953-5233] This article and the collection are now republished as a book on the 20th anniversary of the journal. See Gender and Change: Agency, Chronology and Periodisation,  A Shepard and G Walker (Editors), (London; Wiley-Blackwell, 2009) 304pp, PB: ISBN: 978-1-4051-9227-9, http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-GEND.html

Vasahatkalin Bharatatil Marathi Madhyamvargiya Striyanche ghargutee Baget’, ‘Family Budgets, Thrift and Household management as reflected in the writings of middle class Maharashtrian women in colonial India’, (in translation), published in Marathi Samshodhan Patrika  or [Quarterly Journal of the Marathi Research Institute],  53:1, October 2006, pp.23-32,  ISSN RNI/31743/63.

Marathi Samshodhan Patrika RNI/31743/63  117.4 Kb

 

‘The Emergence of the Female Criminal in India: Infanticide and Survival under the Raj’, History Workshop Journal, Spring 2002, vol. 53, pp. 73-93. [ISSN 1363-3554]. http://hwj.oxfordjournals.org/?code=hiwork&homepage=&buy=&.cgifields=code

 

‘The Age of Consent Act (1891) Reconsidered: Women’s Perspectives and Participation in the Child Marriage Controversy in India’, South Asia Research, 12:2, November 1992, pp.100-19. http://sar.sagepub.com/content/12/2/100.short?rss=1&amp%3bssource=mfc

 

‘Colonial Ideology and Colonial Literature: The creative world of Rudyard Kipling’,

 Studies in History, 3:1, 1987, pp.75-96. http://www.sagepub.in/browse/journal.asp?Journalid=7&Subject_Name=&SubSubjectName=&mode=1

 

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS

‘The Emergence of the Female Criminal in India:  Infanticide and Survival under the Raj’,Crime Through Time, Anupama Rao and Saurabh Dube (eds.), OUP India, 978-0-19-807761-9 | Hardback | November 2012 (estimated). http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198077619.do#.T_mXgPX7RXs 

 

‘Indian Christian Women and Indigenous Feminism, c.1850 - c.1920’, This previously published work (1995) was judged as a ‘classic’ in feminist history writing by an independent US scholarly poll conducted by Routledge and reprinted in a specially commissioned volume. Independent Judge: Karen Offen from Stanford University, See Karen Offen (ed.), Globalizing Feminisms,1789 – 1945, (Rewriting Histories Series) (New York: Routledge, 2009) ISBN Pb: 978-0-415-77868-8 . http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415778688/

 

‘Rebellious Wives and Dysfunctional Marriages: Indian Women’s Discourses and Participation in the Debates over Restitution of Conjugal Rights and the Child Marriage Controversy in the 1880s and 1890s’, in Sumit Sarkar and Tanika Sarkar, (eds.), Women and Social Reform in Modern India: A Reader, (Bloomington: Indian University Press, 2008) 560 pp, ISBN-13: 978-0-253-22049-3. http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/product_info.php?products_id=84792

 

‘From the Symbolic to the Open: Women’s resistance in colonial Maharashtra,’in Ghosh. A (ed.), Behind the Veil: Resistance, Women and the Everyday in Colonial South Asia, (Houndmills, Palgrave MacMillan, 2008), HB :9780230553446 , 244 pp. Also reprinted by Palgrave with an e-edition for libraries. http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?PID=280596

 

 ‘Age of Consent and Child Marriage in Colonial India and Victorian Britain’, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History, Volumes 4, (General Editor) Bonnie Smith, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), ISBN 13: 9780195148909 and ISBN10: 0195148908 Hardback, 2752 pages, [ The e-version was released in February 2008] http://www.oxford-womenworldhistory.com/LOGIN?sessionid=d8ab8877a041817f59b707bb6800d172&authstatuscode=400

‘Sexual Harassment in India: a case-study of Eve-teasing in Historical Perspective’, in Rethinking Sexual Harassment (Editors Clare Brant and Yun Lee Too), (London, Pluto, 1994), pp.220-34, ISBN 0-7453-0837-6 and 0-7453-0838-4.

 

OTHER SHORT ARTICLES AND REVIEWS

‘Age of Consent and Child Marriage in Colonial India and Victorian Britain’, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History, Volumes 4, (General Editor) Bonnie Smith, (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007), ISBN 13: 9780195148909 and ISBN10: 0195148908 Hardback, 2752 pages, [A 2,800 word article. The e-version was released in February 2008] Anagol, Padma. “Phipson, (Mary) Edith Pechey- (1845–1908).” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Eds. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. (Oxford: OUP, 2004). Online ed. Ed. Lawrence Goldman. May 2006. 1 Oct. 2009 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/56460

 

Book Review of ‘State Intervention and Popular Response: Western India in the Nineteenth Century’ Mariam Dossal and Ruby Maloni, eds. Popular Prakashan, Mumbai, (1999) Indian Economic and Social History Review 38:3 (2001) 334-38, ISSN 0019-4646.

 

Book Review of Suruchi Thapar-Bjorkert, Women in the Nationalist Voices: Unseen Faces and Unheard Voices, 1930-42, New Delhi, Thousand Oaks and London, Sage Publications, 2006, 304 pp., £35.00 (hardback), ISBN 0-7619-3406-5, £14.24 (paperback), ISBN 0-7619-3407-3 in Journal of Gender Studies, 17:1 (2008) ISSN: 1465-3869 (electronic) 0958-9236 (paper).