Wednesday, May 08, 2019
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Colonial Perspective of Gender
Colonial Perspective of Gender
Negative Impact:
- The following points regarding colonial perspective of gender are based on the scenario of before and after the advent of British empire in the Indian Sub-continent.
- With colonization in India, Europeans implemented their ideas of sex and gender identity to the native people.
- It erased the preexisting concept of sex and gender identity that was there before the arrival of British
- With western colonization, it created dual social category system.
- They introduced this concept of making this dual social category to distribute and organize production, territory and behavior.
- The main idea was to have control over labor and authority.
- The restitution of conjugal rights; meaning compensation or punish was introduced for not participating in sexual acts with their spouses. A spouse could sue one's partner for refusing their sexual obligations for marriage.
- Indian prostitutes were provided to people in the army who served as soldiers. They (prostitutes) were given cards for identifications and medically checked.
Positive Impact:
- From 1772 to 1947, 9 major reforms were introduced regarding child marriage, widow remarriage and women inheritance laws;
- Child marriage was strictly prohibited. Back in the day it was a normal practice for child of age 12 getting married in the Indian Sub-continent. Europeans got rid of such traditions and made laws against it.
- Widow remarriage was prohibited before British India, it was also allowed in colonial era.
- Women inheritance laws were improved than its previous state.
- Women were given right to vote in 1921 but with a very limited sense; This was given to only those men and women who were educated. This right was given to women due to the efforts of Women's Indian Association (WIA).
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