The late 1920s and early 1930s witnessed a transitional moment in the evolving politics of gender in colonial Bengal. From ...

The 1881 colonial census of Bengal considered all unmarried women over the age of 15 as prostitutes. The first census of the city of Calcutta and its neighbourhood counted 12,228 known prostitutes ...

The events in Stroke of Death unfold in Rajapur, a small village in Bengal, in 1904. The novel opens with the death of Sarla, a young maid who works in the Rajbari.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. Performed by both men and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rashmoni was the first woman in colonial Bengal to build a Kali temple. Her husband Babu Rajchandra, a Zamidar, died in 1836 leaving her with his property and assets.

Here, many more typified representations of women engaged in various kinds of work were published. Always, like the early representations in colonial albums, picture postcards relied on social ...