Book Reviews : BHARATI RAY, Early Feminists of Colonial India: Sarala Devi Chaudhurani and Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2002
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If no one now takes seriously the entire self-promoting notion of a dissociation of sensibility that supposedly took place under colonialism, it is generally acknowledged that something more momentous-less literary-than sensibilities did change in the course of the period. Phule, to be sure, is part of this period of cultural invention and depredation; and yet, I am convinced-from the sheer point or force of his selected writings-that there is more to Phule than having ’invented’ (or at least radically redescribed) away of talking about hierarchies, both cosmic and social, of knowledge, behaviour and entitlement. The theorist Homi Bhabha has a
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For over 35 years, The Indian Economic and Social History Review has been a meeting ground for scholars whose concerns span diverse cultural and political themes with a bearing on social and economic history. The Indian Economic and Social History Review is the foremost journal devoted to the study of the social and economic history of India, and South Asia more generally. The journal publishes articles with a wider coverage, referring to other Asian countries but of interest to those working on Indian history. Its articles cover India"s South Asian neighbours so as to provide a comparative perspective.