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A fresh look at the idea of bastard feudalism, deploying little-used records to provide new insights.

Feudalism --- Feudal tenure --- Civilization, Medieval --- Land tenure --- Land use --- Land use, Rural --- Chivalry --- Estates (Social orders) --- Law, Medieval. --- Law, Medieval --- History --- Great Britain --- Medieval law --- To 1500 --- Lancastrian. --- Lawlessness. --- Legal History. --- Medieval Social History. --- Medieval Urban History. --- Nobility. --- Parliament. --- Tudor. --- Wars of the Roses. --- Yorkist.

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Bernard Cohn's interest in the construction of Empire as an intellectual and cultural phenomenon has set the agenda for the academic study of modern Indian culture for over two decades. His earlier publications have shown how dramatic British innovations in India, including revenue and legal systems, led to fundamental structural changes in Indian social relations. This collection of his writings in the last fifteen years discusses areas in which the colonial impact has generally been overlooked. The essays form a multifaceted exploration of the ways in which the British discovery, collection, and codification of information about Indian society contributed to colonial cultural hegemony and political control.Cohn argues that the British Orientalists' study of Indian languages was important to the colonial project of control and command. He also asserts that an arena of colonial power that seemed most benign and most susceptible to indigenous influences--mostly law--in fact became responsible for the institutional reactivation of peculiarly British notions about how to regulate a colonial society made up of "others." He shows how the very Orientalist imagination that led to brilliant antiquarian collections, archaeological finds, and photographic forays were in fact forms of constructing an India that could be better packaged, inferiorized, and ruled. A final essay on cloth suggests how clothes have been part of the history of both colonialism and anticolonialism.

India --- History --- Civilization --- British influences. --- Politics and government --- Great Britain --- India. --- Inde --- Politique et gouvernement --- Civilisation --- Influence britannique. --- Histoire --- Amaravati ruins. --- Aryans. --- Banaras law. --- Bodleian Library. --- Brahmans. --- Dayabnaga law. --- Dewani court. --- English common law. --- Foucault, Michel. --- Gandhi caps. --- Gittinger, Mattiebelle. --- Gujarati. --- Hindoostanic. --- Hindowee. --- Kismeere (Kashmiri). --- Madras Literary Society. --- Maharashtian law. --- Nadars. --- Omichand. --- akhunds. --- archaeology. --- banians. --- capitalism and textiles. --- censuses. --- cholera belts. --- colonialism. --- comparative philology. --- conspiracy theory. --- cotton cloth. --- documentation project. --- dubashis. --- ethnology. --- ethnosociology. --- fakirs. --- famine. --- gangs. --- grants from Indian rulers. --- handspinning and weaving. --- health and clothing. --- historiography. --- imagined communities. --- industrialism. --- itineraries through India. --- jewels. --- khadi uniforms. --- knighthood. --- kornish salutation. --- lawlessness of India. --- nautches. --- pageantry. --- Barbarism --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Culture --- World Decade for Cultural Development, 1988-1997 --- Bharat --- Bhārata --- Government of India --- Ḣindiston Respublikasi --- Indië --- Indien --- Indii︠a︡ --- Indland --- Indo --- Republic of India --- Sāthāranarat ʻIndīa --- Yin-tu --- インド --- هند --- Индия --- Indi --- Indii͡

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A feminist biography of the only woman to become prime minister of IsraelIn this authoritative and empathetic biography, Pnina Lahav reexamines the life of Golda Meir (1898–1978) through a feminist lens, focusing on her recurring role as a woman standing alone among men. The Only Woman in the Room is the first book to contend with Meir’s full identity as a woman, Jew, Zionist leader, and one of the founders of Israel, providing a richer portrait of her persona and legacy.Meir, Lahav shows, deftly deflected misogyny as she traveled the path to becoming Israel’s fourth, and only female, prime minister, from 1969 to 1974. Lahav revisits the youthful encounters that forged Meir’s passion for socialist Zionism and reassesses her decision to separate from her husband and leave her children in the care of others. Enduring humiliation and derision from her colleagues, Meir nevertheless led in establishing Israel as a welfare state where social security, workers’ rights, and maternity leave became law. Lahav looks at the challenges that beset Meir’s premiership, particularly the disastrous Yom Kippur War, which led to her resignation and withdrawal from politics, as well as Meir’s bitter duel with feminist and civil rights leader Shulamit Aloni, Meir’s complex relationship with the Israeli and American feminist movements, and the politics that led her to distance herself from feminism altogether.Exploring the tensions between Meir’s personal and political identities, The Only Woman in the Room provides a groundbreaking new account of Meir’s life while also illuminating the difficulties all women face as they try to ascend in male-dominated fields.

Women prime ministers --- Meir, Golda, --- A Room of One's Own. --- Activism. --- All rights reserved. --- Amendment. --- Aunt. --- Bourgeoisie. --- Buddhism. --- Cess. --- Clare Boothe Luce. --- Comrade. --- Dafna. --- Davar. --- Deliberation. --- Disability. --- Disadvantage. --- Dissident. --- Double burden. --- Emptiness. --- Ethel Kennedy. --- Femininity. --- Feminism (international relations). --- Feminism. --- Feminist philosophy. --- Feminist theory. --- First Lady. --- Flightless bird. --- Furniture. --- Gender equality. --- Gender neutrality. --- Gender role. --- Glass ceiling. --- Golda Meir. --- Groupthink. --- Halakha. --- Hanging. --- Henrietta Szold. --- Histadrut. --- Hostility. --- Humiliation. --- In Her Skin. --- Inferiority complex. --- Institution. --- Isolationism. --- Israel State Archives. --- Israelis. --- Jews. --- John Foster Dulles. --- Kibbutz. --- Knesset. --- Ladies' Home Journal. --- Lawlessness. --- Letty Cottin Pogrebin. --- Loneliness. --- Majority rule. --- Majority. --- Manicure. --- Mapai. --- Memoir. --- Misogyny. --- Mother. --- Mrs. --- Ms. --- Multitude. --- Oriana Fallaci. --- Pale of Settlement. --- Password. --- Pat Nixon. --- Persephone. --- Privacy. --- Proportionality (mathematics). --- Rachel Katznelson-Shazar. --- Reason. --- Resentment. --- Ridicule. --- Ritual. --- Ruth Bader Ginsburg. --- Secrecy (book). --- Secrecy. --- Secularism. --- Sewing. --- Sexism. --- Shimon Peres. --- Socialist feminism. --- Squat toilet. --- Subconscious. --- Suffragette. --- Superiority (short story). --- Sympathy. --- Tel Aviv. --- The Bathtub. --- The Feminine Mystique. --- Tibetan Buddhism. --- Uncertainty. --- Upper class. --- Virginity. --- Weapon. --- Wet nurse. --- Women in Israel. --- Yiddish. --- Zionism.