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"Dismissed by Gandhi as a 'gutter inspector's report, Katherine Mayo's Mother India created a storm of controversy when it was first published in the late twenties. In her introduction to this work Mrinalini Sinha locates the debate over Mother India in the broader context of the politics of its production and reception and examines its impact on the 'woman question' outside India. The controversy over the book not only facilitated the passage of the Child ...
This is a tremendously important book. It not only details the complex history of the interdependent constructions of colonial masculinities in British India, it also provides a model for how such histories should be written. The attention to detail and to theory produces a study that is nuanced, complex and clear--one that offers new insight into the contradictory ways in which race and gender structure the politics of both imperialism and nationalism." ...
A huge international controversy followed the 1927 publication of Mother India, an expose written by the American journalist Katherine Mayo. Mother India provided graphic details of a variety of social ills in India, especially those related to the status of women and to the particular plight of the country’s child wives. The book was translated into more than a dozen languages, and it was reviewed in virtually every major publication on five continents. ...