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Tthe database contain items as varied in type from newspaper reports, film clips and scholarly journal articles, in subject from sociology to anthropology touching onto film studies and temporally from 1930's onto the 2000's. Debates into homogenization as a nationalist paradigm, constitutional rights of the individual, position of women in the Hindu society, et al are tagged and browsing by the tags allows a journey through the material which might be removed from actual linear tracking of the resources.
What this database aims to do is provide directions for a series of subsequent researches, which in turn add up as a resource for the database. This is by no means a completed endeavour and ideally grows with usage and contributions.
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Featured Collections:Journal ArticlesA Collection of articles from the film journals in and around the period of passage of the Hindu Marriage Act: articles from women's pages, censorship debates and so on, which throw light on the… Court CasesA collection of legal disputes pertaining to various facets of the Hindu Code Bill, presented in Indian Courts. Film ClipsFilm Clips from Indian Cinema in and around the period the Hindu Marriage Act, 1955. These clips are selected as demonstrations of key moments of addressing the legal by the popular (cinema) in its… |
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Woman versus Womanliness in India: An Essay in Cultural and Political PsychologyThe essay involves an analysis of the constricted role of woman in Indian society and public affairs as part of an ongoing process of civilisational…
Love in a Colonial Climate: Marriage, Sex and Romance in Nineteenth-Century BengalA study of the 19th century Bengali society and the changing notions of marriage, conjugality and companionship ushered in through an acquaintance to…
Review: BratachariniReview of the film Bratacharini published in the Kartik, 1362 (Nov-Dec, 1955) issue of the Chitrabani magazine. |