Visible histories, disappearing women
Subtitle: producing Muslim womanhood in late colonial Bengal
By: Mahua Sarkar.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780822342151; 9780822342342
Subjects: Muslim women -- India -- West Bengal -- History -- 19th century; Muslim women -- India -- West Bengal -- Social conditions -- 19th century; Women in Islam; West Bengal (India) -- History -- 19th century; West Bengal (India) -- Social conditions -- 19th century; Great Britain -- Colonies -- Asia -- Administration
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-329) and index.
Table of contents: title: The colonial cast : the merchant, the soldier, the "writer" (clerk), their lovers, and the trouble with "native women's" histories; title: The politics of (in)visibility : Muslim women in (Hindu) nationalist discourse; title: Negotiating modernity : the social production of Muslim-ness in late colonial Bengal.