The Distressed State of Colonial Indian Muslim Women Writers

Muslim women and the politics of (in)visibility in late colonial Bengal.

The paper attempts to understand ways in which gender and racially defined communal ideologies worked simultaneously to produce Muslim women in colonial Bengal as invisible within nationalist historiography. It argues that the negative representations of Muslim women underpinned the construction of other identity categories in colonial Bengal, and highlights the participation of Hindu/Brahmo wo...

The Colonial Heritage in Indian Publishing

THEMAJOR CONTRIBUTION of two hundred years of British colonial rule to Indian publishing is an internal market for books in the English language -a market that persists and even grows despite the end of direct colonial domination in 1947. This has had a profound effect, for good and ill, on the growth of Indian publishing since independence. On the positive side, India has the advantage of a la...

Race, Gender, and Visuality: Regulating Indian Women Subjects in the Colonial Caribbean

As scholars in Caribbean Studies struggle to deconstruct the complicated cultural history of colonialism, visual representations — such as painted imagery, sketches, photographs and lithographs, often accompanied by “word imagery” (i.e. elaborate word descriptions that are meant to stand in for the image) — are increasingly recognised as valid and unique sites that challenge the story of Wester...

Muslim Women in the Bosnian Crucible

Exotic tales and dramatic details about Muslim women’s views of Bosnian society are uncommon. In fact, few Muslim women in Bosnia are overtly Islamic in appearance or action. Rather, they blend into a secularized society in which Islamic heritage provides traditions and values, not dogma. Despite this assimilation, 12 Bosnian women relate 3 different but connected features of their lives: the e...

Nobody's Story the Vanishing Acts of Women Writers