Sarkar, Mahua.

Visible histories, disappearing women : producing Muslim womanhood in late colonial Bengal / Mahua Sarkar. - Durham : Duke University Press, 2008. - xi, 338 p. ; 24 cm.

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.

9780822342151 (cloth : alk. paper) 0822342154 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780822342342 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0822342340 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9788189884437

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014601730 Uk


Muslim women--History--India--West Bengal--19th century.
Muslim women--Social conditions--India--West Bengal--19th century.
Women in Islam.


West Bengal (India)--History--19th century.
West Bengal (India)--Social conditions--19th century.
Great Britain--Colonies--Administration.--Asia

HQ1170 / .S2196 2008

305.48697095414 / S2458v