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ISBN-- 9788125032472 This book explores how, in early m odern Malayalee society, the emerging notion of the individual identity based on jati, was linked to the vision of a society based on gender differences. The Process of individualizing thus also became a process of en gendering social reform claimed to set free people, tho make them free individuals. in fact this process of individualisation was implicated in institutions home making, parenting, political that were seen to be gender specific, As Such men and women came to occupy separate complementary domains, that were seen as natural while education wass seen paradoxically, as a way to realize these naturally gendered selves. The book exploreshow social reform notions of the individual, and the creation of a gendered individual came together in early modern kerala.
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