The book comprehensively appraises the relatively unexplored but highly impactful women's association, the Assam Mahila Samiti, which led one of the most remarkable women's movements in colonial India. The Assam Mahila Samiti was perhaps the largest democratic women's association in India. Central to the Samiti story is its founding secretary, Chandraprava Saikiani (1901-72) who, despite being an unwed mother, and belonging to a lower caste, was a celebrated writer and a polemical columnist.
The book comprehensively appraises the relatively unexplored but highly impactful women's association, the Assam Mahila Samiti, which led one of the most remarkable women's movements in colonial India. The Assam Mahila Samiti was perhaps the largest democratic women's association in India. Central to the Samiti story is its founding secretary, Chandraprava Saikiani (1901-72) who, despite being an unwed mother, and belonging to a lower caste, was a celebrated writer and a polemical columnist.
Hemjyoti Medhi is Associate Professor of English at Tezpur University, India. She has coordinated a project under the 'Preserving Social Memory' Grant of the Sephis Programme, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, to create a digital archive of select mahila samitis' papers and oral histories in Assam. She is also a recipient of the Charles Wallace India Trust SOAS Visiting Fellowship and has several articles to her credit. Medhi has been working towards taking the mahila samiti stories to a larger audience through exhibitions, radio and television programmes, and a short documentary film 'Xeito Monot Assey' (That, I Remember).
Inhaltsangabe
* List of Illustrations * Acknowledgements * List of Abbreviations * Note on Citation, Translation, and Usage * Chronology * Introduction * 1. The Making of the Aideo: Construction of Gender * 2. Early Women's Writing, the Mahila Samitis, and the Naam Kirtan Space * 3. Poharir Mel! The Mahila Samitis in Assam * 4. 'Weaving Fairy Tales': The Mahila Samitis and the Sipini Bhoral * 5. Mukto Manuh: Chandraprava Saikiani's Writings * Conclusion * Curating Memories: An Archive of Select Mahila Samitis in Assam * A Representative Bibliography of Chandraprava Saikiani * Assam Kachari Mahila Sanmilanar Pratham Adhibeshanar Sabhanetrir Abhibhashan * List of Interviews * Glossary * Selected Bibliography * Index
* List of Illustrations * Acknowledgements * List of Abbreviations * Note on Citation, Translation, and Usage * Chronology * Introduction * 1. The Making of the Aideo: Construction of Gender * 2. Early Women's Writing, the Mahila Samitis, and the Naam Kirtan Space * 3. Poharir Mel! The Mahila Samitis in Assam * 4. 'Weaving Fairy Tales': The Mahila Samitis and the Sipini Bhoral * 5. Mukto Manuh: Chandraprava Saikiani's Writings * Conclusion * Curating Memories: An Archive of Select Mahila Samitis in Assam * A Representative Bibliography of Chandraprava Saikiani * Assam Kachari Mahila Sanmilanar Pratham Adhibeshanar Sabhanetrir Abhibhashan * List of Interviews * Glossary * Selected Bibliography * Index
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