If you continue browsing the site, you agree to the use of cookies on this website. Engaging and insightful, this volume will be of interest to students and researchers of literature and history, gender and culture studies, and for general readers interested in women and travel writing. Bengali proverb with english translation SlideShare uses cookies to improve functionality and performance, and to provide you with relevant advertising. The author draws attention to the personal histories of these women, which informed their views on education, womanhood, marriage, female autonomy, family, and politics in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Reading these from a feminist, postcolonial perspective, the volume highlights how these women from different castes, class and ages confront the changing realities of their lives in colonial India in the backdrop of the independence movement and the second world war. These writings challenge stereotypes of the 'circumscribed native woman’ and explore the complex personal and socio-political histories of women in colonial India. The book brings together a selection of travelogues from various Bengali women and their journeys to the West, the Aryavarta, and Japan. It documents the transgressive histories of these women who stepped out to create emancipatory identities for themselves. This book chronicles travel writings of Bengali women in colonial India and explores the intersections of power, indigeneity, and the representations of the ‘self’ and the ‘other’ in these writings.
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