Looking within, looking without : exploring households in the subcontinent through time : essays in memory of Nandita Prasad Sahai

Nandita Prasad Sahai, Indian Historian; Contributed Articles. Mapping Histories And Practices Of Potters' Households In Ancient Indor Khera (200 Bc-500 Ce) / Supriya Varma And Jaya Menon -- Women As Patients And Practitioners In Early Sanskrit Medical Literature / Martha Ann Selby -- Blessed Events: The Uttarakāṇda's Construction Of Sītā's Pregnancy / Sally J. Sutherland Goldman -- The Breastfeeding Mother As Icon And Source Of Affect In Visual Practice: A Transcultural Journey / Monica Juneja -- The Dynamics Of The Early Indian Household: Domesticity, Patronage And Propriety In Textual Traditions / Jaya Tyagi -- A Sutaputra In A Royal Household: The Kshatriya World Of Power And Its Margins / Uma Chakravarti -- Women And Home In The Tirukkural: The Normative Construction Of The Family In The Tamil Region In The Middle Of The First Millennium Ce / R. Mahalakshmi -- 'the Whole Universe Is My Home': Bhakti In Medieval Maharashtra / Umesh Ashok Kadam -- Households Profane And Divine: Perceptions Of Saintly 'wives' / Vijaya Ramaswamy -- Women, Church And The Syrian Christian Households In Pre-modern Kerala / Pius Malekandathil -- Worlds Within And Worlds Without: Representations Of The Sangha In 'popular' Tradition / Kumkum Roy -- Non-wives And Their Networks In Medieval Tamil Nadu / Leslie C. Orr -- Consensus And Control: The Mathas, Household And Religious Devotion In Medieval South India / Ranjeeta Dutta -- Towards An Economic History Of Rural Households In Early Modern India: Some Evidence From Bengal In The Eighteenth Century / Rajat Datta -- Disciplining The Brahman Household: The Moral Mission Of Empire In The Eighteenth-century Maratha State / Rosalind O'hanlon -- Crossing The Golden Gate? Sunars, Social Mobility, And Disciplining The Household In Early Modern Rajasthan / Nandita Prasad Sahai. Edited By Kumkum Roy. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.