Visible histories, disappearing women : producing Muslim womanhood in late colonial Bengal /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sarkar, Mahua
Language:English
Published: Durham : Zubaan, c2008.
Subjects:
Muslim women > India > West Bengal > History > 19th century.
Muslim women > India > West Bengal > Social conditions > 19th century.
Women in Islam.
West Bengal (India) > History > 19th century.
West Bengal (India) > Social conditions > 19th century.
Great Britain > Colonies > Asia > Administration.
Table of Contents:
  • The colonial cast : the merchant, the soldier, the "writer" (clerk), their lovers, and the trouble with "native women's" histories
  • The politics of (in)visibility : Muslim women in (Hindu) nationalist discourse
  • Negotiating modernity : the social production of Muslim-ness in late colonial Bengal.

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