Recasting women : an introduction / Kumkum Sangari and Sudesh Vaid -- Whatever happened to the Vedic dasi? : orientalism, nationalism and a script for the past / Uma Chakravarti -- Contentious traditions : the debate on Sati in colonial India / Lata Mani -- Marginalization of women's popular culture in nineteenth century Bengal / Sumanta Banerjee -- That magic time : women in the Telangana people's struggle / Vasantha Kannabiran and K. Lalitha -- Feminist consciousness in women's journals in Hindi : 1910-1920 / Vir Bharat Talwar -- The nationalist resolution of the women's question / Partha Chatterjee -- Tracing Savitri's pedigree : Victorian racism and the image of women in Indo-Anglian literature / Susie Tharu.
Working women in colonial Bengal : modernization and marginalization / Nirmala Banerjee -- Customs in a peasant economy : women in colonial Haryana / Prem Chowdhry -- Rural women in Oudh 1917-1947 : Baba Ram Chandra and the women's question / Kapil Kumar.