Early feminists of colonial India [electronic resource] : Sarala Devi Chaudhurani and Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain / Bharati Ray.

By:

Ray, Bharati

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2013.Description: 1 online resource : illISBN:

9780199082186 (ebook) :

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Additional physical formats: Print version: No titleDDC classification:

305.42095414 23

LOC classification:

HQ1744.B4

Online resources:

Oxford scholarship online

Summary: It presents a historical evaluation of Sarala Devi Chaudhurani and Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain. It specifically determines the similarities and differences in the ideas and activities of these women from two different communities in colonial Bengal, Hindu-Brahmo and Muslim, and thus also sheds some light on contemporary Hindu and Muslim societies, their patterns of change during the colonial encounter, and the emergence among both the communities of a new generation of women.

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It presents a historical evaluation of Sarala Devi Chaudhurani and Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain. It specifically determines the similarities and differences in the ideas and activities of these women from two different communities in colonial Bengal, Hindu-Brahmo and Muslim, and thus also sheds some light on contemporary Hindu and Muslim societies, their patterns of change during the colonial encounter, and the emergence among both the communities of a new generation of women.

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