By Deborah Anna Logan

This publication examines the numerous impacts and accomplishments of the Indian girls’ journal, the 1st Indian journal demonstrated and edited via an Indian woman—Kamala Satthianadhan—in English, written via girls, for girls. impacts contain Victorian, Edwardian, and glossy literature and tradition in addition to conventional Indian literature and tradition through the past due colonial, pre-independence interval. greater than a literary magazine, this booklet additionally addressed social reforms, from “ladies’ philanthropy” to “women’s venture to women”; the emergence of Indian “identity politics” in keeping with the nationalist and independence activities; the Indian lady query within the context of girl schooling debates and moving innovations of “womanliness”; cultural exchanges recorded by way of Indian tourists to the United States; and the emergence of Indian nationalism, among global Wars I and II, resulting in independence. This e-book recorded and took part within the such a lot pivotal second in glossy Indian historical past and did so via attractive to either the conservative and innovative socio-political urges marking the period.

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