Women Writing in India (Volume I The Twentieth Century)

This groundbreaking volume offers a selection of writing in ten languages which have never before been available either as a collection or in English. Providing an extraordinary body of literature and an important documentary resource, these writings illuminate the lives of Indian women over a period of great social and political change. The ciritical introductions and biographical headnotes map women's shifting roles and varying responses to the social, political, and cultural.

' .as engrossing and intellectually stimulating a piece of argument as anyone has read, its strong beam illuminating the texts that follow.'

' the introductory essays and headnotes are themselves stellar pieces.'

'The selection also demonstrate the need to question one's assumptions about what is literature and what is great literature.'-Studies in History.

' asks for a revaluation of how history is recorded and of whose stories may be told.'

'A book that is revolutionary.. Which it will be impossible ever again to ignore.'

' Remarkable for [its] extensive research the sensitive and rigorous translations of each piece, and the impressive introductions to each section .'