Selections from Mother IndiaMrinalini Sinha looks at the debates surrounding Katherine Mayo's "Mother India" which caused much controversy when it was first published in the late 1920s, resulting in the Child Marriage Restraint Act in 1929. She examines the book's impact on the "women's question" both in India and outside. |
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