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Pandita Ramabai was one of India's earliest feminists. Honored with the title of Saraswati in Calcutta in 1879, she soon alienated the men who had initially supported her. A high-caste Hindu widow, Ramabai converted to Christianity, an act that was seen not only as a betrayal of her religion but of her very nation. A classic study, Rewriting History does more than introduce one of the foremost thinkers of nineteenth-century India; it rescues Ramabai from the marginalization of her contemporaries. Arguing that this controversial figure has been actively suppressed in the writing of India's pre-independence history, Uma Chakravarti liberates Ramabai with an acute and nuanced critique of the power relations and hierarchies within a colonized society. Thoroughly researched and meticulously detailed, Rewriting History is essential reading for those interested in gender, class, and caste in nineteenth-century India.

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• Full title: Rewriting History - The Life and Times of Pandita Ramabai
• Author: Uma Chakravarti
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 492
• EAN: 9789381017944
• ISBN: 9381017948
• ID: 05060105
• Publisher: Zubaan
• Weight: 348 g
• Dimensions: 132 × 203 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 23. May 2014

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