Women and Labour in Late Colonial India: The Bengal Jute Industry by Samita Sen

Women and Labour in Late Colonial India: The Bengal Jute Industry

Cambridge Studies in Indian History and Society

Samita Sen

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Samita Sen's history of laboring women in Bengal in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries considers how social constructions of gender shaped their lives. The author demonstrates how the long-term trends in the Indian economy devalued ...

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