Asia
The Desired ‘One’: Thinking the Woman in the Nation
By and , Jadavpur University, Kolkata, University of Calcutta (July 2007)
Sections: Asia
Subjects: History Writing, Imperial, Colonial, and Postcolonial History, Study of History, Women's History, History, Colonial History.
Places: Southern Asia, Asia.
Periods: 1000 - 1999, 1700-1799, 1800-1899, 1900-1999.
Abstract
A review of the secondary literature on the way nationalist thought in colonial India conceived ‘woman’ shows three broad strands. One is the perspective of the history of art, which studies the genealogy of the iconic symbolisation of women. The remaining stands have similar objects of knowledge (the nationalist representation of women in terms of the debi) but differ in their foci of attention. The first is concerned with the (role of the) woman in nationalist thought and how ‘real’ women had responded to that construction. The other focuses on the processes of nation building in the colony to reach its gendered aspects. We finally make a case for a synthesis of these through a few instances.
DOI: 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2007.00455.x
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