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Talking of Power - Early Writings of Bengali Women (Paperback)
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Talking of Power - Early Writings of Bengali Women (Paperback)
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'Around the middle of the nineteenth century, a social category was
born in Bengal, along with a new word that named it: lekhika or the
female author.'-Tanika Sarkar, Foreword These writings, translated
for the first time from Bengali, form a path-breaking collection of
issues that aimed at the empowerment of women and thus remain alive
today. The women were the first to receive a 'modern' education,
and became members of the reading and writing public that hitherto
was entirely male. The writers came from urban elite backgrounds,
most from Brahmo Samaj families, many comparatively unknown today
like Bamasundari Devi or Kumudini Mitra as well as more famous ones
from the Tagore family-Swarnakumari Devi and her daughters. Some
were Hindus like Kailashbasini Devi and Krishnabhabini Das, among
others. There are also two Muslim women writers-the brilliant Begum
Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain and the social reformer Khairunnissa
Khatun. The articles cover a whole range of social issues: social
powerlessness, domestic management, the Swadeshi movement, what to
wear outside the house when leaving seclusion, and financial
independence. Writing for the new journals that came up as
vernacular print media was expanding. Making their way into the
literary world, the women opened up new roles for themselves and
their successors.
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