num_pages: 193
description: Demonstrating the centrality of gender in the formation of a national identity, Indira Chowdhury opens up fresh ways to scrutinize the links between nationalism and Indian modernity, examining how indigenous cultural forms are constructed for a modern political identity.
language: English
title: The Frail Hero and Virile History: Gender and the Politics of Culture in Colonial Bengal
titlecomplete: The Frail Hero and Virile History: Gender and the Politics of Culture in Colonial Bengal (SOAS Studies on South Asia)
ratings_count: 5
publisher: School of Oriental and African Studies