Tanika Sarkar: 3 books
Words to Win
The Making of Amar Jiban: A Modern Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
The first autobiography in Bengali was written by an upper-caste rural housewife called Rashundari Debi (18091899). Published when she was 88 years old, Amar Jiban (My Life) is a fascinating first-hand account of life for women in Bengal at that time. Mother to eleven children, Debi reflects on her experiences...
Rebels, Wives, Saints
Designing Selves and Nations in Colonial Times
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
Tanika Sarkars writings on women, religion, and nationhood in the context of colonial Bengal have been pathbreaking. In this new book of connected essays, she gives a new direction to the same themes, this time by focusing on some of the key historical texts within which these identities were given shape....
Hindu Wife, Hindu Nation
Community, Religion and Cultural Nationalism
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
This book is a brilliant historicisation and scathing critique of many of the dominant concepts by which Indians generally, and north Indian Hindus more specifically, think and live today. Historians, sociologists, political scientists and serious readers who wish to understand how the immediate past has shaped Indias life will value this incisive work of a major historian.