Women and Literary Narratives in Colonial India: Her Myriad Gaze on the 'Other'

In the colonial context of South Asia, there is a glaring asymmetry in the written records of the interaction between the Bengali women and their European counterparts, which is indicative of the larger and the overall asymmetry of discursive power, including the flow and access to information between the colonizers and their subjects.

This book explores the idea of gazing through literature in Colonial India. Based on literary and historical analysis, it focuses on four different genres of ...