This book is an attempt to understand, through a gender lens, the ways in which society has been shaped, and the reasons for that shaping. Women in Indian society, as everywhere, constitute half of its members, but still figure very little in its historiography. The papers collected here focus on different times and different facets of women’s history, but are linked by the common thread of trying to make visible, that which was invisible.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Kirit K. Shah
An upcoming author but a seasoned scholar, Dr. Kirit K. Shah (born Nov. 24, 1945) had a brilliant educational career crowned by a First-class-First M.A., in History and another First-class-Third in Ancient Indian History, Culture, and Archaeology. After putting in more than a decade of teaching in Madhya Pradesh Educational Service (Collegiate Branch) and completing his Doctorate in 1978, he joined the Department of History, Punjab University, Chandigarh. Currently Reader and Head of the Post Graduate Department of History, S.N.D.T. Women's University, Bombay, he has about a dozen published research papers to his credit in provincial and national journals. A life-member of Indian History Convress and a member of the Madhya Pradesh Itihasa Parishad, the Punjab History Conference, and the Epigraphical Society of India, Dr. Shah holds a degree in Law as well as in Literature.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Radhika Seshan
Radhika Seshan teaches history at the University of Pune. After obtaining her Masters and M.Phil in Medieval Indian History from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, she went on to compete her doctorate from the University of Pune. She is the co-editor of Fractured Identity? The Indian Diaspora in Canada and Visibilising Women: Aspects of History through a Gendered Lens, and has also published research papers in many journals.
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