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Dowry Murder: The Imperial Origins of a Cultural Crime more books like this

by Veena Talwar Oldenburg

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The Hindu custom of dowry has long been blamed for the murder of wives and female infants in India. In this highly provocative book, Veena Oldenburg argues that these killings are neither about dowry nor reflective of an Indian culture or caste system that encourages violence against women. Rather, such killings can be traced directly to the ...

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Shaam-E-Awadh: Writings on Lucknow more books like this

by Veena Talwar Oldenburg

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The Making of Colonial Lucknow 1856-1877 more books like this

by Veena T Oldenburg

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Examining the history of Lucknow, Oldenburg shows how the results of its transformation after the Mutiny of 1857 continue to pervade the city even today. Challenging conventional views of the extent of British intervention in India after the Mutiny, she contends that the supposedly neutral political, social, economic, and physical changes made in ...

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