Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface xi
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. The Practice of Femicide in Postcolonial India and the Discourse of Population Control within the Nation State 1
6. Center and Periphery in British India: Post-Enlightenment Discursive Construction of Daughters Buried under the Family Room 29
7. Social Mobility in Relation to Female Infanticide in Rajput Clans: British and Indigenous Contestations about Lineage Purity and Hypergamy 57
8. A Critical History of the Colonial Discourse of Infanticide Reform, 1800–1854 101
9. A Critical History of the Colonial Discourse of Infanticide Reform, 1800–1854 129
10. Subaltern Traditions of Resistance to Rajput Patriarchy Articulated by Generations of Women within the Meera Tradition 169
11. The Meera Tradition as a Historic Embrace of the Poor and the Dispossessed 205
12. Appendix 235
13. Notes 241
14. Bibliography 297
15. Index 313