Bengali Women’s Writings in the Colonial Period in India

What is it about?

It deals with select works of Bengali women in colonial Bengal where they in one way or the other dealt with the issues of identity, authenticity, a troubled encounter with modernity and pre-colonial past. It charts the way they managed to throw up optics hitherto unexplored in liberal feminism that almost at the same time emerged in Europe.

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Why is it important?

It provides certain definite angles to approach feminism in India, especially for those who want to explore the intricate interlocking of caste-class-gender in a context of colonial modernity in India.