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Indian Women Myth and Reality Google Original from Digitized by UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA Google Original from Digitized by UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA I n d i a n W o m e n Myth and Reality Edited by J asodhara Bag chi Santam looks Google Original from Digitized by UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA • Picture Credits Victoria & Albert Museum, London : Plate 1, 5, 6 ; Victoria Memorial, Calcutta : Plate 4; Indian Museum, Calcutta: Plate 8,9 ; Sri Chitra Art Gallery, Trivandrum : Plate 7 ; ~bindra Bharati Society, Calcutta : Plate 10; National Film Archive of India : Plate 11, 12. Plate 2 & 3 are reproduced from Indian llnd British Portrllilure by M. Archer and Plate 13 is the reproduction from Ritwik Ghlllllk : A Ret11n1 to the Epic by Ashish Rajadhyaksha. ALD HQ.. 1742- ·1533 © Sangam Books (India) Limited 1995 /995 First published 1995 ISBN0863112447 Distributed by Orient Longman Limited Registered Office 3-6-272 Himayatnagar, Hyderabad 500029 Other offices Kamani Marg, Ballard Estate, Bombay 400 038 17 Chittaranjan Avenue, Calcutta 700 072 160 Anna Salai, Madras 600 002 1 /24 Asaf Ali Road, New Delhi 110 002 80/1 Mahatma Gandhi Road, Bangalore 560 001 365 Shahid Nagar, Bhubaneswar 751 007 Al/316 'Gour Mohan' Ambady Lane, ChittorRoad, Emakulam 682 001 S.C. Goswami Road, Panbazar, Guwahati 781001 3-6-272 Himayatnagar, Hyderabad 500 029 28/31, 15 Ashok Marg, Lucknow 226 001 City Centre Ashok, Govind Mitra Road, Patna 800 004 Typeset at Vishnu Datagraphics 97, Park Street, Calcutta 700 016 Printed in India at Tapan Printing 40/1/ AR. N. Das Road Calcutta 700031 Publislted by Sangam Books (India) Limited 3-5-820, Hyderguda, Hyderabad 500029 Google Original from Digitized by UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA Contents Foreword VII Acknowledgements IX Contributors XI Introduction 1 The Private and the Public 17 1. Indian Women: Myth and Reality 19 Ashapurna Devi 2. Laws on Women: Judaism, 24 Christianity and Hinduism Sukumari Bhattacharji 3. Motherhood : Power and 34 Powerlessness Maithreyi Krishnaraj 4. Slow Pan Left : Feminism and the 44 Problematic of Rights Susie Tharu 5. Women of the Killing Belt of Bihar 58 Manimala Workplace and Domesticity 71 6. Sexual Division of Labour : Myths and 73 Reality in the Indian context Nirmala Banerjee 7. Myth and Reality : In the context of Poor 82 Working Women in Kerala Leela Gulati Google Original from Digitized by UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA Contents VI 8. Bengali Middle Class Women: Distance 91 Between Myth and Reality ManikaNag 9. Hindu Conjugality and Nationalism: in 98 Late Nineteenth Century Bengal Tanika Sarkar Textu.al Strategies 117 10. 'My Husband, Good or Bad': Closures in 119 Bankimchandra's Novels Manabendra Bandyopadhyay 11. The Contemporary Popular Bengali Fiction : 133 Textual Strategies Sibaji Bandyopadhyay Ways of Seeing 145 12. The Woman Perceived : The Changing 147 Visual Iconography of the Colonial and Nationalist Period in Bengal Ratnabali Chattopadhyay and Tapati Guha Thakurta 13. Looking at Women : Sequences 168 Moinak Biswas Making Women Visible 177 14. Searching Research Materials on Women's 179 Studies Kalpana Das Gupta Index 187 Plates .193 Google Original from Digitized by UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA Foreword 1:ndian Women : Myth and Reality was the theme of a National seminar organized by us on 9, 10 and 11 March 1989. Queries from different parts of India prompted us to put together the contributions that make up this volume. This is an incomplete volume, in the sense that a few articles that were either presented or scheduled to be presented in the seminar have not been included. We hope to bring out a companion volume when they are made available to us. We owe special thanks to Chandreyee Niyogi for her careful translation of the inaugural address given by Ashapurna Devi and Shailaja Kejriwal and Arun Patnaik for translating and transcribing Manimala's tal~. In preparing the volume we had valuable assistance from Sarbani .Goswami, Madhuchchanda Karlekar, Ashok Mukherji, Samir Roy, Subha Das Gupta, Sutapa Niyogi, Subiinal Bhattacharya, Robin Mukherji, Srikant Jana and Aniruddha Bagchi. Despite our best efforts flaws always have remained. Google Original from Digitized by UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA Google Original from Digitized by UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA Acknowledgements The publication of this book brings to fruition one of the most significant of our original collective efforts to launch the inter disciplinary School of Women's Studies at Jadavpur University in 1989. The book commemorates the co-operation we received from feminist scholars, activists and creative writers in the country and in our own city. Our thanks are due to Chandreyee Niyogi who translated Ashapurna Devi's inaugural addres.5, Shailaja Kejriwal and Arun Patnaik who transcribed and translated Manimala's talk from Hindi into English, Dibakar Karmakar for typing the editorial paraphernalia and Abhijit Sen for helping with the index and the proofs. The book, like everything else with which the School of Women's Studies had begun, bears the imprint of the indefatigable 'gang of four'-Sai:bani Goswami, Shivani Banerjee-Chak ravorty, Abhijit Sen and Karuna Chakraborty. Google Original from Digitized by UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA
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