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The Hindu wife and the Hindu nation: Domesticity and nationalism in nineteenth century Bengal
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A critical exercise that simultaneously interrogated problems of power within indigenous custom and tradition (especially their gender norms, albeit within definite patriarchal limits), as well as within the colonial connection as discussed by the authors, the problems so interanimated and complicated one another that far from reaching a resolution, it was unable to set itself an agenda with any absolute certainty.Abstract:
critical exercise that simultaneously interrogated problems of power within indigenous custom and tradition (especially their gender norms, albeit within definite patriarchal limits), as well as within the colonial connection. The problems so interanimated and complicated one another that far from reaching a resolution, it was unable to set itself an agenda with any absolute certainty. Emergent nationalist consciousness, which straddled a complex range of forms and possibilities, posed more questions and doubts to its own convictions than resolutions. ’read more
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