Visible Histories, Disappearing Women: Producing Muslim Womanhood in Late Colonial Bengal

Examines how Muslim women came to represented as invisible, backward, and victimized in the written history of late colonial Bengal. This title argues that their near-invisibility, except as victims, in normative histories of India was central to the consolidation of national identity in the colonial period and beyond.

• | By (Author): Mahua Sarkar
• | Publisher: Duke University Press
• | Publication Date: Apr 25, 2008
• | Country of Publication: United States
• | Number of Pages: 352 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Paperback|Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0822342340
• | ISBN-13: 9780822342342