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Visible histories, disappearing women : producing Muslim womanhood in late colonial Bengal / Mahua Sarkar.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sarkar, Mahua.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Muslim women--India--West Bengal--History--19th century.
- Muslim women.
- Muslim women--India--West Bengal--Social conditions--19th century.
- Women in Islam.
- West Bengal (India)--History--19th century.
- West Bengal (India).
- West Bengal (India)--Social conditions--19th century.
- Great Britain--Colonies--Asia--Administration.
- Great Britain.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (354 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Argues that the discursive erasure of Muslim women within colonial and Hindu nationalist discourse underpinned the construction of other identity categories in late colonial Bengal and remains linked to violence against Indian Muslim women today.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-329) and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780822389033
- 0822389037
- OCLC:
- 271244523
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