Subject Index
adolescence 6, 7, 9, 51, 63-64, 82-94, 101, 111, 121,136,155,169-170; adolescent sexuality 85-94, 169-174
adoption 85,182
adult/adulthood 14,28, 57, 65, 66,
88, 185; emerging adulthood 88-89,172
age 8, 9,13,26, 27, 59, 67, 85, 86,118, 149,174,175; age distribution 37; age of discretion 107-108; see also age at marriage; age of consent
agency 9, 66, 67, 89-90,107-108,137, 175,185,187
age-sex system 27-29, 40, 41,57 anaemia 86, 138, 141
anthropology 52, 66, 148-149
ati-shudra 24,25, 29; see also untouchables; caste
autobiography 20
bhadramahila 21
Bharat Mata 28
boys 15, 33, 34, 85,128-129,156,
171,176
brahmacharya 12
Brahmanical/Brahmin 12, 14, 15, 21-25,40,59
Buddhist 14
care 69-70; unpaid care work 113
caste 6, 9,13,18,20, 21, 29, 40, 46, 131,148-149, 152-153,183,184; caste endogamy 38,151, 153, 184-185
child labour 30,157,159-165
child marriage 1-9,11-47, 51-58, 69-83,87, 90-91,93-94, 100-143, 192-198; in Bali 4; causes of 133-136, 142; in China 5, 8, 78-83; consequences of 136-138; criminalisation of 105-109, 143, 174; decline in 128,142,185; economic costs of 116,118,136; in the Indian colonial period 11,16-33; infant marriage 24-25, 28,44-45, 79, 101; in the new millennium 102-143; in the pre-colonial period 12-15,29; in Princely Mysore 33-34; in the US 5, 8, 57, 71-78; with/after Indian independence 35-47
child sexual abuse 62
child/women 1, 46, 92-94, 100, 155, 186; see also girl/women
childhood/the child 1, 2, 6, 9,12, 18, 30,40, 51, 57-71, 74-75, 85,101, 121,149,155; childhood studies 66-67
class 41,46, 54-58, 60, 63, 64, 76, 78-79, 81-82, 89, 93-94,151, 183
Cold War 40
communal (Hindu-Muslim) 29, 35,43 community 3, 9
compulsory marriage 6, 9, 83, 147, 181-187
conjugalities 153-154
consent 8, 26, 104,115, 160; age of 23-31,33-34,104,106,108
culture 19, 21, 25,27, 30,46,133-136, 138,197
demography 8, 39, 41,56,102, 113-143,174
devadasi 30,153
disability 41
divorce 35, 74, 82, 151,153, 182 dowry 149-150
education 8,19-22, 29, 35, 39,40, 81, 87-88,102,124,131,148,151, 154-159,165, 166,172, 180, 183; elementary education 156-157;
secondary education 156; westernised 23, 78
employment 6, 8, 35, 40-43, 81, 102, 124, 142, 159-169,183; see also work
female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM)4-5,113
female infanticide 23,110
feminism 3, 23, 44-45,143,154-156; and childhood 67-71; in China 78;
French feminism 4-5; in Maharashtra 23; second wave 69;
Western 6, 93; see also women’s movement
fertility 37-41,102,115-116,139-140, 193-4,197
forced labour 160
Freudian 13
Gandhian 29
garbardhan 23; age of consummation 34
gauna 44
gender 2, 3,12, 20, 21, 60, 61, 89, 112, 163
geography 66-67
girl child 14,28, 109-113; see also girlhood
girlhood/the girl 6,25-29, 40-41, 71, 91-94,152; see also girl child
girls 15, 27-33, 60-63, 85, 89-94, 171;
“missing” 2, 110,182 girl/women 44, 67, 85; see also child/
women
health 8,138-141 heterosexual/heteronormative 5, 54, 72,
84, 86, 153,171
Hindu 13, 17, 20, 23,26, 30, 31, 35, 40, 197
homosexual 5, 74, 171
incidence 120,129 infant/infancy 12, 23, 44; see also child
labour 21, 148; see also employment;
work
law 6, 22, 32-34, 103,142; Blackstone laws 56, 75; British law 22; Hindu law 22, 35; legal reform 16-47,
80- 81,101,103-109; Muslim personal law 45-46; religious/ personal laws 36-37,104, 105
leftover men 81; leftover women
81- 82
lesbian 6-7,153
marriage: age at 2, 6, 7, 9, 14, 30-33, 37-40, 54-58, 69-83, 90-94, 118-143,148-187, 192-198; arranged 3, 52, 101, 150,152-153, 183; early 3,15, 23, 54-94, 100-143; forced marriage 107,113,173; Hindu marriage 24-25, 30,104-105; history of 6, 51-58; institution of 1,2,22, 77,101, 150-151, 176; love 3, 52, 72-74, 93,101, 107, 150,152,183; marriage registration 38, 80, 82, 105-106, 112; Muslim marriage 30-31, 104; self-respect 32; see also child marriage; compulsory marriage
men 19, 33, 37, 68, 89,’ 153,176-177;
old men 43, 75 migration 124, 163-164 minor 59,106; see also child minority group/status 6, 41 monogamy 54,153 mother/motherhood 28, 38, 67, 69-70 Muslim 14, 20, 31-32,42-43,107,153
nation 19, 26,198 nationalism 25-33,46, 197 nature 25, 27,197 Nehruvian 37 neo-liberalism 42, 83-84, 90 non-marital sex 30-31 non-normative 153-154, 183,185 nutrition 41, 85,137-138,170, 180,193
patriarchy/patriarchal 18, 19, 34, 93 policy 6, 86,109-113,142,155 population 37-39, 81,103-104, 110, 115-116, 197; populationism 139, 173; population policies 39, 81,197
poverty/the poor 8, 41, 42, 86, 89,107, 112,124,131,141,151
prevalence 120,121, 126,169
prostitute/prostitution 6, 27, 30-31, 153
psychology 12, 66
puberty 13, 23, 27, 40, 59, 83-86,104;
pre-pubertal 13,22, 88
purdah 20
queer 74, 93; see also non-normative
race 25,27, 74-76, 93-94
rape 44,101,106; custodial rape 40, 101-102; gang rape 45-46; marital rape 25,106-107
regional economies 141-142 religion 17, 25,131
reproductive health 8,113,170-171
sati 17-18
sex ratios 2,41,81,112, 180-181
sex selection 2, 110, 111
sexual harassment 45-46
sexual intercourse 18, 23-27, 106
sexuality 3,27, 41, 43, 59-61, 93,102, 170,175,185
shudra 24,25, 29; see also caste
single women 186
social justice 25-26,29
social norms 9, 147,177-181,187 social reform 17-29,46,100,197;
second social reform 29-35 sociology 66-67,102,149
teenage 76; teenage pregnancy 84-87, 138; see also adolescence
trafficking 30,196
untouchables/untouchability 21,46; see also ati-shudra; caste
violence 3, 6,17, 41, 89, 94, 101, 142, 175; domestic violence 43; dowry deaths 41, 43,150; see also rape; sexual harassment
widow/widowhood 18, 24, 40,153;
child widow 18-19, 33, 101; widow remarriage 18-19
widowers 24
women and children 1, 69
women’s empowerment 17, 142, 185 women’s movement: in India 2, 3, 36, 44-46, 143; in the US 72-78
work 8,40, 102,148,162-169,172;
factory work 164; home-based work 162,163; housework 34,161-162,
- 166- 167; paid domestic work 162-163; work participation rates
- 167- 169; see also labour;
employment
youth 14, 58, 61,66-67, 87-88, 90-91; see also adolescence
