Anshu Malhotra is Associate Professor of History at the University of Delhi and the author of Gender, Caste, and Religious Identities: Restructuring Class in Colonial Punjab. Siobhan Lambert-Hurley is Reader in International History at the University of Sheffield and author of Muslim Women, Reform and Princely Patronage: Nawab Sultan Jahan Begam of Bhopal.¿ ¿
Anshu Malhotra is Associate Professor of History at the University of Delhi and the author of Gender, Caste, and Religious Identities: Restructuring Class in Colonial Punjab. Siobhan Lambert-Hurley is Reader in International History at the University of Sheffield and author of Muslim Women, Reform and Princely Patronage: Nawab Sultan Jahan Begam of Bhopal.¿ ¿
Anshu Malhotra is Associate Professor of History at the University of Delhi and the author of Gender, Caste, and Religious Identities: Restructuring Class in Colonial Punjab. Siobhan Lambert-Hurley is Reader in International History at the University of Sheffield and author of Muslim Women, Reform and Princely Patronage: Nawab Sultan Jahan Begam of Bhopal.
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Acknowledgments ix Introduction. Gender, Performance, and Autobiography in South Asia / Anshu Malhotra and Siobhan Lambert-Hurley 1 Part I. Negotiating Autobiography: Between Assertion and Subversion 1. A Passion for Reading: The Role of Early Twentieth-Century Urdu Novels in the Construction of an Individual Female Identity in 1930s Hyderabad / Sylvia Vatuk 33 2. Pentimento: The Self beneath the Surface / Ritu Menon 56 3. Interrupted Stories: The Self-Narratives of Nazr Sajjad Hyder / Asiya Alam 72 4. Kailashabashini Debi's Janaika Grihabadhur Diary: A Women "Constructing" Her "Self" in Nineteenth-Century Bengal? / Shudhra Ray 95 Part II. Forms and Modes of Self-Fashioning 5. Betrayal, Anger, and Loss: Women Write the Partition in Pakistan / Uma Chakravarti 121 6. Tawa'if as Poet and Patron: Rethinking Women's Self-Representation / Shweta Sachdeva Jha 141 7. Masculine Modes of Female Subjectivity: The Case of Jahanara Begam / Afshan Bokhari 165 Part III. Destabilizing the Normative: The Heterogeneous Self 8. Performing a Persona: Reading Piro's Kafis / Anshu Malhotra 205 9. The Heart of a Gopi: Raihana Tyabji's Bhakti Devotionalism as Self-Representation / Siobhan Lambert-Hurley 230 10. Performing Gender and Faith in Indian Theater Autobiographies / Kathryn Hansen 255 Select Bibliography 281 Contributors 301 Index 305
Acknowledgments ix Introduction. Gender, Performance, and Autobiography in South Asia / Anshu Malhotra and Siobhan Lambert-Hurley 1 Part I. Negotiating Autobiography: Between Assertion and Subversion 1. A Passion for Reading: The Role of Early Twentieth-Century Urdu Novels in the Construction of an Individual Female Identity in 1930s Hyderabad / Sylvia Vatuk 33 2. Pentimento: The Self beneath the Surface / Ritu Menon 56 3. Interrupted Stories: The Self-Narratives of Nazr Sajjad Hyder / Asiya Alam 72 4. Kailashabashini Debi's Janaika Grihabadhur Diary: A Women "Constructing" Her "Self" in Nineteenth-Century Bengal? / Shudhra Ray 95 Part II. Forms and Modes of Self-Fashioning 5. Betrayal, Anger, and Loss: Women Write the Partition in Pakistan / Uma Chakravarti 121 6. Tawa'if as Poet and Patron: Rethinking Women's Self-Representation / Shweta Sachdeva Jha 141 7. Masculine Modes of Female Subjectivity: The Case of Jahanara Begam / Afshan Bokhari 165 Part III. Destabilizing the Normative: The Heterogeneous Self 8. Performing a Persona: Reading Piro's Kafis / Anshu Malhotra 205 9. The Heart of a Gopi: Raihana Tyabji's Bhakti Devotionalism as Self-Representation / Siobhan Lambert-Hurley 230 10. Performing Gender and Faith in Indian Theater Autobiographies / Kathryn Hansen 255 Select Bibliography 281 Contributors 301 Index 305
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