Visible histories, disappearing women : producing Muslim womanhood in late colonial Bengal / Mahua Sarkar.
By: Sarkar, Mahua
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TextPublisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2008Description: xi, 338 p. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780822342151 (cloth : alk. paper); 0822342154 (cloth : alk. paper); 9780822342342 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0822342340 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9788189884437.Subject(s): 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 -- AdministrationDDC classification: 305.48697095414 Online resources: Table of contents only
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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Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-329) and index.
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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