Making the 'woman' : discourses of gender in 18th-19th century India / edited by Sutapa Dutta and Shivangini Tandon.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dutta, Sutapa, editor.

Tandon, Shivangini, editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks

Commins-Holman Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--India--History--18th century.

Women.

Women--India--History--19th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxi, 218 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.

Biography/History:

Sutapa Dutta is a Professor of English at Gargi College, University of Delhi. Her research interests and publications are focused on 18th- and 19th-century writings and cover gender, education and identity in colonial India. She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, London, and was a Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study (IIAS), Shimla, from 2018 to 2020. She has authored British Women Missionaries in Bengal, 1793-1861, British Women Travellers: Empire and Beyond, 1770-1870 (ed.) and Mapping India: Transitions and Transformations, 18th-19th Century (co-ed). Her latest book is titled Disciplined Subjects: Schooling in Colonial Bengal. Shivangini Tandon is an Assistant Professor in History at Women's College, Aligarh Muslim University. Her research interests include Early modern South Asian history, Feminist theory and questions of Language. She did her B.A. and M.A. from St. Stephen's College, PhD in History from Delhi University and is a former Visiting Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Germany. She has been invited to many national/international forums as a speaker. Her articles have been published in edited books and journals like the Indian Historical Review, Journal of South Asian History & Culture and by Nehru Memorial, New Delhi. She is the recipient of prestigious fellowships/awards like the Max Planck India Mobility Grant, Sanwa Bank Scholarship and the ICHR foreign travel grant.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 25, 2024).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Commins-Holman Family Fund.

Other Format:

Print version:

ISBN:

9781003817154

1003817157

9781032640532

1032640537

9781003817178

1003817173

Publisher Number:

99995980297

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