A path-breaking book that explores the current status of Adivasi women in the four states of eastern India, with high percentages of Adivasis – Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha and West Bengal – Debasree De engages with the recent paradigm of ‘development and displacement’ and Adivasi women’s marginalization and cultural silencing. Extensive field surveys are used covering tea-gardens, stone-crusher and brick kiln and construction ...
Tagore’s Ideas of the New Woman: The Making and Unmaking of Female Subjectivity
A notable contribution on Tagore’s vision of womanhood This book theorizes the continuous reconfigurations—‘making’ and ‘unmaking’—of female subjectivity in Tagore’s life, his times, and his works. This transhistorical approach in the book makes gender formations and discourses of the past relevant and necessary to the understanding of postmodern gender issues and ideologies. A unique feature of this compilation is ...