The Frail Hero and Virile History: Gender and the Politics of Culture in Colonial Bengal by Indira Chowdhury

The Frail Hero and Virile History: Gender and the Politics of Culture in Colonial Bengal

Indira Chowdhury

193 pages first pub 1998 (editions)

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Demonstrating the centrality of gender in the formation of a national identity, Indira Chowdhury opens up fresh ways to scrutinize the links between nationalism and Indian modernity, examining how indigenous cultural forms are constructed for a mo...

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