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Rebels, Wives, Saints

- Designing Selves and Nations in Colonial Times

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Focuses on women, religion, and nationhood in colonial Bengal. This work describes a colonial universe that centers around symbols of women as both defiled and deified, exemplified in the idea of woman as widow and woman as goddess. The nation, it explains, is imagined as a woman-goddess within a country comprising plural cultural traditions.

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  • Sprog:
  • Engelsk
  • ISBN:
  • 9781906497293
  • Indbinding:
  • Hardback
  • Sideantal:
  • 356
  • Udgivet:
  • 9. oktober 2009
  • Størrelse:
  • 255x153x32 mm.
  • Vægt:
  • 574 g.
  • Ukendt - mangler pt..

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Focuses on women, religion, and nationhood in colonial Bengal. This work describes a colonial universe that centers around symbols of women as both defiled and deified, exemplified in the idea of woman as widow and woman as goddess. The nation, it explains, is imagined as a woman-goddess within a country comprising plural cultural traditions.

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