Shobna Nijhawan: 2 books
Women and Girls in the Hindi Public Sphere
Periodical Literature in Colonial North India
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2011
The emergence of periodicals in Hindi for women and girls in early-twentieth-century India helped shape the nationalist-feminist thought in the country. Analysing the format and structure of periodical literature, Shobna Nijhawan shows how it became a medium for elite and middle-class women to think...
by Shobna Nijhawan
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
his anthology comprises a selection of formative literary writings in Hindi and Urdu from the second half of the nineteenth century, leading up to Indian Independence and the creation of Pakistan. The texts here are mostly hitherto unpublished translations into English. The anthology provides a picture...