Visible Histories, Disappearing Women: Producing Muslim Womanhood in Late Colonial Bengal

by Mahua Sarkar (Author)

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  Paperback
  2008

  $47.91

  Examines how Muslim women came to represented as invisible, backward, and victimized in the written history of late colonial Bengal. This title argues that their near-invisibility, except as victims, in normative histories of India was central to the consolidation of national identity in the colonial period and beyond.