Gender in Indian History, c.1500-1950 — DU History Honours Previous Year Question Papers

Attempt four questions in all. Analyze the extent to which the Mughal royal household functioned as the focal point for political authority and economic activity. Did Rajput Zennana differ radically from its Mughal counterpart ? How was the Mughal normative masculinity constructed and challenged ? What constituted the ‘‘women’s question’’ in nineteenth-century India, and to what extent did social reform movements succeed in addressing it ? How was the issue of gender dealt with in the context of social differentiation during 19th and 20th centuries in India ? How did print culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries reflect and critique prevailing gender relations ? 6. Did women's labour in agriculture and industry in colonial India translate into their economic empowerment ? 7. How was nationhood constructed on the physical frame of women in the process of partition ? 8. Write short notes on any two of the following: (a) Humayun-nama of Gulbadan Begum (6) Women and Chand Magazine (d) Periyar's view on gender hierarchy.