Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
1. The Practice of Femicide in Postcolonial India and the Discourse of Population Control within the Nation State
2. Center and Periphery in British India: Post-Enlightenment Discursive Construction of Daughters Buried under the Family Room
3. Social Mobility in Relation to Female Infanticide in Rajput Clans: British and Indigenous Contestations about Lineage Purity and Hypergamy
4. A Critical History of the Colonial Discourse of Infanticide Reform, 18001854
Part I: Infanticide Reform as Extra-Economic Extraction of Surplus
5. A Critical History of the Colonial Discourse of Infanticide Reform, 18001854
Part II: The Erasure of the Female Child under Population Discourse
6. Subaltern Traditions of Resistance to Rajput Patriarchy Articulated by Generations of Women within the Meera Tradition
7. The Meera Tradition as a Historic Embrace of the Poor and the Dispossessed
Appendix: The Baee Nathee Case
Notes
Bibliography
Index