Muslim Women and the Politics of (In)visibility in Late Colonial Bengal

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In this Subject: History ,&nbsp; Sociology
By this author: Sarkar, Mahua

Author: Sarkar, Mahua

Source: The Journal of Historical Sociology, Volume 14, Number 2, June 2001 , pp. 226-250(25)

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Abstract:

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 women writers in this process.

Document Type: Original article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1467-6443.00143

Publication date: 2001-06-01