HOUSEHOLD, FAMILY, LABOUR The 'Amenities of Domestic Life': Questions on Labour Kumkum Sangari 3 Economics and Patriliny: Consumption and Authority within the Household Rajni Palriwala 47 Land, Dowry, Labour: Women in the Changing Economy of Midnapur Jayoti Gupta 74 Persistence of a Custom: Cultural Centrality of Ghunghat Prem Chowdhry 91 Women and Farm Work in Tamil Folk Songs Vijaya Ramaswamy 113 Social Pariahs and Domestic Drudges: Widowhood among Nineteenth Century Poona Brahmins Uma Chakravarti 130 Prostitution in Nineteenth Century Bengal: Construction of Class and Gender Ratnabali Chatter jee 159 Prostitutes, Patrons and the State: Nineteenth Century Awadh Kokila Dang 173 244- 46