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The late 1920s and early 1930s witnessed a transitional moment in the evolving politics of gender in colonial Bengal. From ...
Book review ‘Stroke of Death’: Murder mystery set in colonial Bengal shines in its portrayal of women’s lives The novel balances history and suspense equally well and gives its readers a ...
Gender, Medicine, and Society in Colonial India: Women’s Health Care in Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century Bengal by Sujata Mukherjee, New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2017; pp XXXV + 223, ₹895 ...
Aishika Chakraborty’s Widows of Colonial Bengal is a well-researched study that looks at, among other things, Ishwar Chandra and the Widow Remarriage Act, the Brahmo marriage, ascetic widowhood ...
This paper attempts to document the changing attitude of sections of bhadralok in colonial Bengal towards middle-class women’s paid work. From the 1920s onwards, a number of journal editors and ...
Women voters in West Bengal play a crucial role in elections, with parties offering schemes and freebies to attract them. Trinamool and BJP compete over the Lakshmir Bhandar scheme, while Congress ...
Last month, the ministry of culture and the Institute of Social and Cultural Studies in collaboration with the post-graduate and research department of political science, St Xavier’s College ...
On this International Women's Day, we recall the women behind the creation of some of India’s most iconic monuments, who often remain forgotten.
Thanks to the Mamata Banerjee Government new watering hole laws, now the women in Bengal will go miles in proving that they are no less than men inside the pubs. This, but for a few eyebrows being ...
Bhawaiya, a genre of Bangla folk songs, emerged within the Rajbangshi community of North Bengal, becoming famous for expressing the (often sensual) desires of women.
Photographic representations of colonised Indian women, segregated by the double burden of being colonised and of womanhood, faced further representational violence in the canons of colonial ...
The first files on women revolutionaries in Bengal appeared in the Intelligence Branch of British India roughly around 1919. And by 1947, more than 200 cases of conviction and sentencing of women ...