Women in the Indian National Movement: Unseen Faces and Unheard Voices, 1930-42This book, significantly, focuses on the nationalist participation of ordinary middle-class women in India's freedom movement, especially in the United Provinces (modern Uttar Pradesh). To construct the nationalist narrative of unheard voices, the author goes beyond conventional sources of history such as official and archival records. Instead, she employs a diverse range of materials-including oral narratives, poetry, cartoons, vernacular magazines, and private correspondence-in order to let these women speak for themselves. |
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List of Tables and Figures | 9 |
THEORETICAL ENGAGEMENTS AND DISENGAGEMENTS 410 | 40 |
Chapter | 54 |
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