You make this book sound much more interesting than I thought it was when I saw it in a bookshop. Especially with the food. I didn't realize it had food.
Indian women fighting for their rights in some sense or another predates colonialism in India, as you probably know, and has a very extensive history in which white people have mostly not been involved at all, except for more recent finger-pointing from the sidelines. Women's issues are frequently integrally interrelated with caste and class issues, as it sounds like this books gets into as well. Though women's stories and involvement in the Independence Movement have been largely downplayed in most of the Indian history books I've read, which is a shame.
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Wed, May. 7th, 2008 09:17 pm (UTC)Indian women fighting for their rights in some sense or another predates colonialism in India, as you probably know, and has a very extensive history in which white people have mostly not been involved at all, except for more recent finger-pointing from the sidelines. Women's issues are frequently integrally interrelated with caste and class issues, as it sounds like this books gets into as well. Though women's stories and involvement in the Independence Movement have been largely downplayed in most of the Indian history books I've read, which is a shame.