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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| 305.486970954 B5758p Purdah to Piccadilly : | 305.486970954 G9776f The future of Indian Muslim women : | 305.486970954 J324m Muslim women speak : | 305.48697095414 S2458v Visible histories, disappearing women : | 305.486970973 H2329p Pedagogies of deveiling : | 305.486971017671 G3255 Gender, politics, and Islam / | 305.488009549183 R5813z Zenana : |
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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