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

Mahua Sarkar examines how Muslim women came to be represented as invisible, backward and victimised in the written history of late colonial Bengal. She argues that the near-invisibility of Bengali Muslim women was central to the consolidation of national identity in the colonial period and beyond.

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1. Verfasser: Sarkar, Mahua (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Durham [u.a.] Duke Univ. Press 2008
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Zusammenfassung:Mahua Sarkar examines how Muslim women came to be represented as invisible, backward and victimised in the written history of late colonial Bengal. She argues that the near-invisibility of Bengali Muslim women was central to the consolidation of national identity in the colonial period and beyond.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:XI, 338 S.
ISBN:9780822342151
9780822342342

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