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Wells, H. G., 199 n31

Widows, 72 , 79 , 84 , 116 , 131 , 178

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 44

Women: as agricultural laborers, 130 -31;

and asceticism, 88 n50;

Brahmin, 14 , 15 , 114 -17, 119 -20, 122 , 128 , 133 ;

and childbirth, 119 -20;

in domestic sphere, 127 -28;

lower-caste, 114 , 130 -34,

and male dominance, 9 , 11 , 15 , 79 , 83 , 116 , 128 -29, 133 ;

and modernization, 79 ;

and morality, 83 -84;

public appearance of, 91 , 116 ;

punishment of, 81 -82;

and Ramnami critique of social hierarchy, 240 , 242 ;

and rituals, 116 , 119 -20;

and segregation from men, 116 , 117 ;

sexuality of, 67 -68, 79 , 84 , 116 ;

as song composers, 118 , 135 n8;

subjugated by Hinduism, 184 -85;

in Tamil culture, 73 , 75 , 81 , 87 n25;

Telugu songs of, 11 , 14 ,

15 , 114 -36;

in Tulsidas's Ramcaritmanas , 87 n27, 240 , 242 ;

in Valmiki's Ramayana , 122

Work songs, 117 , 130 -31, 135 n6

Wyatt, David, 62 n23