essay
Attitudes of modernity among urban females in Bengal
Bengal : studies in literature, society and history • (27) • Published In 1976 • Pages: 121-127
By: Bhattacharyya, Bela.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This study is based on interviews with 125 women of different castes and communities (excluding Muslims) in the town of Krishnagar. It investigates the attitudes of women toward male-female relations in Bengali society, with a focus on four main issues which the author considers as indices of modernity: (1) the free-mixing of males and females in social situations; (2) self-choice of one's marriage partner; (3) inter-caste marriages; and (4) divorce (p. 121). Each of the above issues is discussed in the text taking into consideration the differences imposed on the data by the caste, class, age, and educational levels of the informants presenting the information.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Sociocultural trends
- Gender status
- Castes
- Classes
- Social relationships and groups
- Termination of marriage
- General sex restrictions
- Education system
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Bengali
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2002
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- South Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Unknown
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1992
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Urban Hindus of Krishnagar, West Bengal, India
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] Bela Bhattacharyya
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Bengalis