Bharati Ray

Autobiography of a woman college professor, historian, and vice-chancellor from Calcutta, India.

a story of five generations

Daughters

Sarala Devi Chaudhurani and Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain

Early Feminists of Colonial India

Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Director of the Women's Studies Research Center Bharati Ray

Sukhendu Ray

Malavika Karlekar

This charming book The Many Worlds of Sarala Devi and The Tagores and Sartorial Styles, as the titles suggest, contain two separate but related writings on the Tagores. The Tagores were a pre-eminent family which became synonymous with the cultural regeneration of India, specifically of Bengal, in the nineteenth century. The first writing is a sensitive translation of Sarala Devis memoirs from the Bengali, Jeevaner Jharapata, by Sukhendu Ray. It is the first autobiography written by a nationalist woman leader of India. Sarala Devi was Rabindranath Tagores niece and had an unusual life. The translation unfolds, among other things, what it was like to grow up in a big affluent house Jorasanko, that had more than 116 inmates and a dozen cooks! The second writing by Malavika Karlekar is a photo essay, creatively conceived, visually reflecting the social and cultural trends of the times, through styles of dress, jewellery and accoutrements. The modern style of wearing a sari was introduced by Jnanadanandini Devi, a member of the Tagore family. The introduction by the well-known historian, Bharati Ray, very perceptively captures the larger context of family, marriage, womens education and politics of the time which touched Sarala Devis life. She points out that if memoirs are a kind of social history then womens diaries record social influences not found in official accounts and are therefore, a rich source of documentation.

The Many Worlds of Sarala Devi: A Diary & The Tagores and Sartorial Style: A Photo Essay

David Taylor

Chiefly in the Indian context; papers presented at a conference.

Politics and Identity in South Asia

Set against the backdrop of surging nationalism and reform in twentieth-century Bengal, this book recounts the lives of two outstanding women-Sarala Devi Chaudhurani and Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain-and compares their work, their approaches and their ideologies.

The volumes of the Project on the History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization aim at discovering the main aspects of India`s heritage and present them in an interrelated way./-//-/ This volume offers insights into women’s lives in colonial and post-colonial India, fully cognizant of the complex interlinking of class, caste, ethnicity, religion, nation, state policy and gender./-//-/The essays in this volume explore the operation of power and the resistance to it, the space that was denied to the disadvantaged gender—women—and the space they created for themselves, and the history of the mutual roles of women and men in colonial and post-colonial India. Eminent scholars on women’s studies and reputed scientists, drawn from diverse disciplines and located in different parts of India, present themes that are crucial to the understanding and experience of gender in India.

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