A historical analysis of a book-inspired controversy that in its dimensions rivalled Hernnstein and Murray's "The Bell Curve" and Rushdie's "The Satanic Verses" and brought forth a new political collectivity in India's women.
A historical analysis of a book-inspired controversy that in its dimensions rivalled Hernnstein and Murray's "The Bell Curve" and Rushdie's "The Satanic Verses" and brought forth a new political collectivity in India's women.
Mrinalini Sinha is Associate Professor of History and Women’s Studies at Pennsylvania State University. She is the author of Colonial Masculinity: The “Manly Englishman” and the “Effeminate Bengali” in the Late Nineteenth Century and the editor of Mother India: Selections from the Controversial 1927 Text.
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About the Series ix Acknowledgements xi Note on Nomenclature and Transliteration xv Introduction: The Anatomy of an Event 1 1. A Transitional Moment: The Dynamics of an Interwar Imperial Social Formation 23 2. Unpredictable Outcome: The Trajectory of a Transatlantic Intervention 66 3. Ironic Reversal: The Rhetoric of “Facts” in the Controversy over Mother India 109 4. Refashioning Mother India: The Sarda Act and Women’s Collective Agency 152 5. Ambiguous Aftermath: Political Consolidation on the Eve of the Second World War 197 Epilogue: History, Memory, Event 248 Notes 255 Bibliography 336 Index 361
About the Series ix Acknowledgements xi Note on Nomenclature and Transliteration xv Introduction: The Anatomy of an Event 1 1. A Transitional Moment: The Dynamics of an Interwar Imperial Social Formation 23 2. Unpredictable Outcome: The Trajectory of a Transatlantic Intervention 66 3. Ironic Reversal: The Rhetoric of “Facts” in the Controversy over Mother India 109 4. Refashioning Mother India: The Sarda Act and Women’s Collective Agency 152 5. Ambiguous Aftermath: Political Consolidation on the Eve of the Second World War 197 Epilogue: History, Memory, Event 248 Notes 255 Bibliography 336 Index 361
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