This book explores women's life experiences from western and eastern India. In this book, readings of personal narratives help in painting various images of lives that we can only know at second hand. The melange includes memoirs, published articles, 'portraits from memory', a collection of essays, and an oral interview.
This book explores women's life experiences from western and eastern India. In this book, readings of personal narratives help in painting various images of lives that we can only know at second hand. The melange includes memoirs, published articles, 'portraits from memory', a collection of essays, and an oral interview.
Aparna Basu is currently Patron of the All-India Women's Conference, and Chairperson, Lakshmibai College, Unversity of Delhi. Her publications include Growth of Education and Political Development in India, 1898-1920 (1974); and A Rebel With a Cause: Mridula Sarabhai (1996). Malavika Karlekar is Editor of Indian Journal of Gender Studies. Her publications include Poverty and Women's Work: A Study of Sweeper Women in Delhi (1982); Voices from Within: Early Personal Narratives of Bengali Women (1991); Re-Visioning the Past: Early Photography in Bengal, 1875-1915 (2005).
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Introduction: Aparna Basu and Malavika Karlekar 1. 'Sarala Devi Chaudhurani' Bharati Ray Jeevaner Jharapata (trans. Sukhendu Roy) 2. 'Sailabala Das' Sachidananda Mohanty A Look Before and After 3. 'Vidyagauri Neelkanth' Aparna Basu Forum 4. 'Anasuya Sarabhai' Aparna Basu Interview with Gira Sarabhai 5. 'Li Gotami' Tulsi Vatsal The Tsaparang Expedition 6. 'Shakuntala Paranjye' Tulsi Vatsal Sense and Nonsense 7. 'Monica Gupta (later Chanda)' Malavika Karlekar Unpublished Memoirs 8. 'Kalpana Dutt (later Joshi)' Gargi Chakravartty Reminiscences (trans. Arun Bose and Nikhil Chakravartty) Index
