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HISTORY Sita Anantha Raman, WOMEN IN INDIA: A SOCIAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY. Praeger, 2009. 2 vols. 500p. bibl. index. $100.00, ISBN 978-0275982423 (set).
This two-volume reference set is a timely addition to the growing number of scholarly works on the historical status and development of women in India. The work is meant to be a critical study "of the primary evidence from literature, art, and archaeology, as well as of secondary scholarship on women in Indian history" (p. xii), and attempts to cover the period from antiquity to modern Indian history. Keeping in mind the complexity that "India's 35 states and territories are diverse in culture, language, history, and governance by political party" (p. 191, is a social and cultural historical study and not an encyclopedia.
Women in India...