A History of Adivasi Women in Post-Independence Eastern India

Debasree De

Debasree De engages with the recent paradigm of ‘development and displacement’ and adivasi women’s marginalization and cultural silencing. The findings in the book are based on extensive fiel...

Gendering Caste

Uma Chakravarti

Examining the crucial linkages between caste and gender, undertaken, perhaps for the first time, Uma Chakravarti unmasks the mystique of consensus in the workings of the caste system to reveal the ...

Tagore's Ideas of the New Woman

Chandrava Charkravarty

This book theorizes the continuous reconfigurations—‘making’ and ‘unmaking’—of female subjectivity in Tagore’s life, his times, and his works. This transhistorical approach in the boo...

Influence of English on Indian Women Writers

K. Suneetha Rani

English as a symbol of modernity in India was first accessed by men, giving them a new image of masculinity while Indian languages were ‘feminized’—seen as meant for women. Among upper-caste wo...