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The World of Muslim Women in Colonial Bengal, 1876-1939 (Social, Economic, and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia, Vol 55) by Sonia Nishat Amin is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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<p>This highly interesting book studies the cultural context of modernisation of middle-class Muslim women in late 19th- and 20th-century Bengal. Its frames of reference are the Bengal 'Awakening', the Reform Movements — Brahmo/Hindi and Muslim — and the Women's Question as articulated in material and ideological terms throughout the period. Tracing the emergence of the modern Muslim gentlewomen, the <i>bhadramahilā</i>, starting in 1876 when Nawab Faizunnesa Chaudhurani published her first book and ending with the foundation in 1939 of The Lady Brabourne College, the book gives an excellent analysis of the rise of a Muslim woman's public sphere and broadens our knowledge of Bengali social history in the colonial period.</p>

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Author
Sonia Nishat Amin
Publisher
Brill Academic Pub
Published
1996
Language
EN
ISBN
9789004070264
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Sociology, History, Anthropology

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