Women's Voice (Selection from Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth Century Indian Writing in English)
Book Specification
| Item Code: | IDD649 |
| Author: | Eunice de Souza & Lindsay Pereira |
| Publisher: | Oxford India Paperbacks |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | 2004 |
| ISBN: | 0195667859 |
| Pages: | 473 |
| Cover: | Paperback |
| Other Details | 8.5" X 5.4" |
| Weight | 510 gm |
Book Description
This anthology brings together the writing of some Indian women who made pioneering social and literary contributions during the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Traversing a wide canvas, the excerpts taken from letters, tracts, diaries, magazines, articles, autobiographies, short stories, and even speeches discuss theatre, dance, travel, and personal experience, while other dwell on social issues, doctrinal problems, orthodox practices, and the position of women in society. The book will interest anyone interested in women's literature of modern India.
About the Author:
EUNICE DE SOUZA retired as head of the department of English, St Xavier's College, Bombay. She is an established poet and writer.
LINDSAY PEREIRA is currently pursuing a PhD from the department of English, University of Bombay.
Experts from Reviews:
'Woman's Voices can be read for pleasure alone, or for considering the wide range of women's writing (personal letters, letters to editors, letters to friends in jail, reminiscences, columns in newspapers, fiction, exhortations). The lucid and informed introduction places the individual pieces as well as the collection in historical context.'
-The book Review
'An invaluable source book. The writing of Toru Dutt, Pandita Ramabai, Cornelia Sorabji, Sarojini Naidu, Rokeya Sakhawat Hosssain, Ruttie Jinnah, Ela Sen, Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, Amrita Sher-Gill, Santha Rama Rau and many lesser known writers are represented here.'
-The Statesman
'These writings provide a window into how the women themselves were reacting to this so-called women's question It is a commendable effort in putting into one volume well-known personalities like Toru Dutt, Pandita Ramabai, Cornelia Sorabji and Sarojini Naidu, along with the lesser known Herabai Tata, Shovana Devi, and Iqbalunnisa Husain.'
-Hindustan Times
'As interesting as the content of their writing is the life of the writers themselves, compiled in brief biographical sketches by coeditor, Lindsay Pereira .The contributions are delightful, thought-provoking and varied '
-Verve
'Women's Voice offers us a wide range of writing in English fiction, including stories for children, autobiographies, articles, letters -private and public An informative Introduction to the period by Eunice de Souza adds to the usefulness of the volume.'
-One India, One People
DOSEBAI COWASJEE JESSAWALLLA
- The First Empress of Indian
My Ascent in a Balloon
Closing Reflections
- -The story Of My Life (1991)
TORU DUTT
- Letters to Miss Martin
- -Life and Letters of Toru Dutt (1921)
PANDITA RAMABAI
- Letters to Sister Geraldine
Letters to Canon Butler
- -The Letters and Corresponding of Pandita Ramabai (1977)
- -The High Caste Hindu Woman (1894)
ANAPURNA TURKHAD
- The Mental Seclusion of India: Letters to the Spectator and the Times of India (1881)
- -Vishrabdha Sharda vol. I (1972)
- Chapter V
- -Saguna (1895)
SHEVANTIBAI M. NIKAMBE
- Early Reformers
- -Women in Modern India (1929)
- -Ratanbai: A Sketch of a Bombay High Caste Hindu Wife (1895)
- My Romance
- -The Autobiography of an Indian Princess
- -Bengal Dacoits and Tigers (1916)
- The Fire is Quenched!
- -Love and Life Behind the Purdah
- -India Calling (1934)
- -India Recalled (1936)
- Shrimati Ramabai Ranade
- -Women in Modern India
- Letter to The Times (9 April 1887)
- -Enslaved Daughters (1998)
- -Women in Modern in India (1929)
- Intellectual Callings
- -The Position of Women in Indian life (1911)
- Stree Zrthosti Mandal': How we came to form it
- -The Stree Bodhe and Social Progress in India (1908)
- A Short Sketch of Indian Women's Franchise Work
- -A Short Sketch of Indian Women's Franchise Work (n.d.)-
- Letter to Miss Serenbai Maeckjeee Coursetjee
- -Lady Dorab Tata: A book of Remembrance
- Child Education
- -Education of Women in Modern India (1946)
- Indian Muslim Women -A Perspective
- -Our cause: A Symposium by Indian Women (1938)
- Letters to Jawaharlal Nehru
- -A Bunch of Old Letters (1958)
- Selection from Sultana's Dream (1905)
- Chapter XIV
- -The Jagirdar of Palna (2936)
- How I Became a Legislator Election of the Hon. President
- -My Experience as a legislator (1930)
- My Reminiscences of Student Days in Baroda College (1913-17)
- -The Baroda College Golden juble Commemoration Volume (1933)
- Chapter XXII (Letters to Kanji Dwarkadas)
- -Ruttie Jinnah: The Story of a Great Friendship (n.d.)
- Some Impressions of Indian Women's Colleges
- -Women in Modern India (1929)
- A Woman of Spain
- Gunpowder Women and Other Essay (1943)
- -Darkening Days (1944)
- So I Became A Minister From Ministry of Prison
- -Vijayalakshmi Pandit (1993)
- Imperialism and Class-Struggle
- -The Awakening of Indian Women (1939)
- -Japan (1939)
- Chapter XX
Chapter XXI
- -Zohra (1951)
- Chapter IX
Chapter XXVII
- -With No Regrets: An Autobiography (1943)
- An Unfinished Autobiography
Story of Negro Genius
The Role of the Creative Writer
- -Sucheta Kripalani
- Approach to personalities
- -Travel Talk (1947)
- Chapter VIII
Chapter IX
- -In Transit (1950)
- Letter to Jawaharlal Nehru
- -A Bunch of Old Letters (1958)
- -Marg (n.d.)
- The Little Book Binder
Disillusion
Aunts and Cats!
- -Victory of Faith and Other Stories (1935)
- The Fairy and the Hare
- -Twenty Jataka Tales Retold (1939)
- The Tale Of the Buddhist Monk
- -Nehal the Musician (1923)
- The Princess with the Borrowed Life
The Hermit Cat
The Hireling Husband
- -The Orient Pearls (1915)
- Chapter II
Chapter IV
Chapter XI
- -Purdah and Polygamy (1944)
- Chapter IX
- -Gifts of Passage (1961)
- Chapter XI
- -The Brocaded Sari (1946)
- Chapter XII
- -Maharani: The Story of an Indian Princes (1953)
