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This book reveals English as culture, politics, lifestyle and social change in the context of Indian women.
English as a symbol of modernity in India was first accessed by men, giving them a new image of masculinity while Indian languages were 'feminized'—seen as meant for women. Among upper-caste women, English was a vehicle for social reform and for lessening seclusion, invisibility and economic dependence. For the so-called lower castes, the language was aspirational, indicating emancipation and empowerment possibilities, and threatening upper-caste dominance. English formed its own language of gender and made women's voices stronger in regional languages, which can be seen in the flowering of women's articles, fiction, biography and letters. This book records the different ways in which women responded to the coming of English into their lives.
Contents
Introduction - K Suneetha Rani
Language, Reform and Nationalism: Indian Women's Writing in the Nineteenth Century - C Vijayasree
Women and 'Reform' - Alladi Uma
Colonized: The Bengali Woman Writer in British India - Sanjukta Dasgupta
Rokeya's Dream: Feminist Interventions and Utopias - Somdatta Bhattacharya
Marathi Women Novelists and Colonial Modernity: Kashibai Kanitkar and Indirabai Sahasrabuddhe - Meera Kosambi
Mukta Salve: The Early Emergence of a Protest Voice in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Bombay Presidency, 1855 - Omprakash Manikrao Kamble
Writing Self: Writing for Others - Paromita Bose
Reconfiguring Boundaries: Education, Modernity and Conjugality in Lalithambika Antharjanam's Agnisakshi and Zeenuth Futehally's Zohra - Jinju S
Securing Pass Marks: Education for Women in the Early Modern Kannada Novel - Nikhila H
Women and English Education in Coorg/Kodagu: A Discussion of Alternate Modernities during 1834-1882 - Sowmya Dechamma
Nation, Ideal Womanhood and English Education: Revisiting the First Tulu Novel Sati Kamale - Yogitha Shetty
Between Langue and Parole: The Forked Road to Development - Jasbir Jain
