S. Joshi

Across much of South Asia, the basic unit of social and economic organization is the family. Within the family, norms of patriarchy and preferences for living in large joint-households induce predictable cycles of household formation and dissolution. The cycle begins when a male…

This study traces the circumstances that allowed the imagination of militant Hindu cultural and political identities in Lucknow between 1880 and 1930. It documents the efforts of men active in the public sphere to create a larger and more empowering role for themselves in the ci…