"Dear Daughters of the Nation": Women's Magazines in Colonial India

Meera Trivedi

Reading List

  • Borghi, Elena. “Forgotten Feminisms: Gender and the Nehru Household in Early‐Twentieth‐Century India.” Gender & History 29 no. 2 (2017): 254-272.
  •  Burton, Antoinette M. Dwelling in the Archive: Women Writing House, Home, and History in Late Colonial India. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. 
  •  Robb, Megan Eaton. “Women’s Voices, Men’s Lives: Masculinity in a North Indian Urdu Newspaper.” Modern Asian Studies 50, no. 5 (2016): 1441-1473. 
  •  Sangari, Kumkum, and Sudesh Vaid. Recasting Women: Essays in Indian Colonial History. N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1990.
  •  Sarkar, Sumit, and Tanika Sarkar. Women and Social Reform in Modern India: A Reader. Bangalore: Permanent Black, 2007. 

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