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Gender, History and Culture: Inside the Haveli contains 22 essays that cover various aspects of Rama Mehta's novel Inside the Haveli. Each one of these explores a new dimension - linguistic structures, historical background, Rajasthani traditions, feudalism, ethnography, lifestyles, purdah, categories of power, family and gender relations. Placed within multiple frames, sociology, history and aesthetics find their own balance. Inside the Haveli, the only novel of a renowned sociologist Rama Mehta, is in itself a blend of sociological constructs and individual aspirations and is viewed as an interface between tradition and modernity. The contributors to this volume include distinguished scholars like Uma Parameswaran, Ranbir Sinh, Jasbir Jain, Malashri Lal, Vrinda Nabar, Pratibha Jain, Sudha Rai and several others. They have opened out hitherto invisible aspects of the novel subjecting it to critical scrutiny and, in the process, have also questioned traditional interpretations. The book will interest both lay readers and scholars of history, sociology and literature.