Project-Reconstruct the life of a girl child living in early 19th century India.Help..?
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How do you reconstruct the life of a girl child in 19th century India?
This is a great question but this would be a tragic answer.
Let's talk about some of the girls in nineteenth century. Phulmoni, a child bride, married before she was even seven, of course because having a period in parent's house was a tragic sin never to be committed. Her husband who was almost thirty and one find during a forced coitus, Phulmoni lost so much blood so much that she died, a mere girl of twelve.
She was not alone, it was a norm to be married in infancy, conservatives argue that women died before they were thirty, it was childbirth which meant the end of road for many and most were forced to seat on a pyre, drugged poor young girls shouted and screamed but the shackles that chained her were just too strong. she died for her husband, just like she lived for her.
Rammohan was able to convince the state to pass the REGULATION XVII in 1829 which abolished Sati and made it a punishable crime, now the poor girl had her head tonsured, had to remain chaste all her life, sleep on the floor, keep fasts almost all the week and if that wasn't all, had to listen to all the wrong things in her life.
Rashundari Devi writing in Amar Jiban, the first autobiography in Bengali that too by a woman speaks of a lingering pain of separation from parents and the duties of household that she had to fulfill all day long.
Some legislations like those on widow remarriage failed to gain social acceptance, a testimony to the fact that colonial state wasn't too powerful after all, the hold of caste panchayats proved stronger.
The century also the growth of nationalism that completely avoided the question of women emancipation and kept it on hold and finally delineated it on its own terms by confining women into the home and portraying them as lovable creatures fit to be mothers and daughters who should be chaste and deepened the association of honour with them, a problem we face in this century.
and sadly, women didn't have a voice for themselves, they couldn't speak, they just were.
This is a great question but this would be a tragic answer.
Let's talk about some of the girls in nineteenth century. Phulmoni, a child bride, married before she was even seven, of course because having a period in parent's house was a tragic sin never to be committed. Her husband who was almost thirty and one find during a forced coitus, Phulmoni lost so much blood so much that she died, a mere girl of twelve.
She was not alone, it was a norm to be married in infancy, conservatives argue that women died before they were thirty, it was childbirth which meant the end of road for many and most were forced to seat on a pyre, drugged poor young girls shouted and screamed but the shackles that chained her were just too strong. she died for her husband, just like she lived for her.
Rammohan was able to convince the state to pass the REGULATION XVII in 1829 which abolished Sati and made it a punishable crime, now the poor girl had her head tonsured, had to remain chaste all her life, sleep on the floor, keep fasts almost all the week and if that wasn't all, had to listen to all the wrong things in her life.
Rashundari Devi writing in Amar Jiban, the first autobiography in Bengali that too by a woman speaks of a lingering pain of separation from parents and the duties of household that she had to fulfill all day long.
Some legislations like those on widow remarriage failed to gain social acceptance, a testimony to the fact that colonial state wasn't too powerful after all, the hold of caste panchayats proved stronger.
The century also the growth of nationalism that completely avoided the question of women emancipation and kept it on hold and finally delineated it on its own terms by confining women into the home and portraying them as lovable creatures fit to be mothers and daughters who should be chaste and deepened the association of honour with them, a problem we face in this century.
and sadly, women didn't have a voice for themselves, they couldn't speak, they just were.
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