Indrani Sen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3935177 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Indrani Sen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Indrani |
| FAMILY NAME | Sen |
| SIGNATURE | SEN I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of English, Sri Venkateswara College, New Delhi |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Gendered transactions: The white woman in colonial India, c. 1820–1930
Gendered Transactions: The White Woman in Colonial India, C. 1820-1930
Writing English, Writing Reform: Two Indian Women’s Novels of the 19th Century
The 1890s saw two literary interventions in English by pioneering Indian women; these were the novels, Ratanbai: A Sketch of a Bombay High-Caste Hindu Young Wife written by Shevantibai Nikambe and Saguna: A Story of Native Christian Life by Krupabai Satthianadhan. Both writers, who were Brahmin converts to Christianity, were deeply involved in debates on female education. Their texts too focus on gendered social reform, especially on female educa…
Memsahibs and Health in Colonial Medical Writings, c. 1840 to c. 1930
Medical literature in colonial India, written mainly for the guidance of colonial personnel, became an important tool for dissemination of western medical knowledge and information but also reinforced wider colonial agendas. Focused mainly on men’s health, only few books or sections in this genre of literature addressed white middle class women’s health issues. This article examines several medical manuals within the wider parameters of race, cla…
Colonial Domesticities, Contentious Interactions: Ayahs, Wet-Nurses and Memsahibs in Colonial India
Nineteenth and early 20th century colonial writings projected the colonial home as a microcosm of the empire. However, as this article argues, the memsahibs’ imperial authority was often undermined by the dynamics of domestic relationships inside the home. Complex and contradictory, they threatened to render the colonial home an ambivalent—and even contested—space. In particular, the location of two female servants inside the colonial nursery—the…
Gendering the Rebellion of 1857: The ‘Loyal Indian Woman’ in ‘Mutiny Fiction’
The colonial ‘Mutiny novel’ was a highly popular literary genre in the nineteenth century. An important trope that recurrently appeared in these writings was that of the ‘loyal Indian woman’. This was constituted in the figure of the devoted ayah, the loyal dancing girl and the English hero's faithful concubine/wife. Additionally, there was the trope of female friendship across the race divide. Far from being a reflection of existing social relat…
Kumkum Sangari, Politics of the Possible: Essays on Gender, History, Narrative, Colonial English. New Delhi: Tulika. 1999. 503 pages. Rs. 650 (hb)
Devoted Wife/Sensuous Bibi: Colonial Constructions of the Indian Woman, 1860-1900
Current research has rather tended to neglect the print culture of 19th-century British India and its contribution towards the formation of gender ideologies. This article attempts to scrutinise the clamorous voices of the print culture: the newspapers, popular periodicals as well as copious published works, and to unravel the complex and sometimes contradictory web of constructions that ihese built around the gendered colonised. The second half …
Gendering (Anglo) India: Rudyard Kipling and the Construction of Women
Between power and 'purdah: The white woman in British India, 1858-1900
Colonial Domesticities, Contentious Interactions: Ayahs, Wet-Nurses and Memsahibs in Colonial India
Nineteenth and early 20th century colonial writings projected the colonial home as a microcosm of the empire. However, as this article argues, the memsahibs’ imperial authority was often undermined by the dynamics of domestic relationships inside the home. Complex and contradictory, they threatened to render the colonial home an ambivalent—and even contested—space. In particular, the location of two female servants inside the colonial nursery—the…
Writing English, Writing Reform: Two Indian Women’s Novels of the 19th Century
The 1890s saw two literary interventions in English by pioneering Indian women; these were the novels, Ratanbai: A Sketch of a Bombay High-Caste Hindu Young Wife written by Shevantibai Nikambe and Saguna: A Story of Native Christian Life by Krupabai Satthianadhan. Both writers, who were Brahmin converts to Christianity, were deeply involved in debates on female education. Their texts too focus on gendered social reform, especially on female educa…
Gendering the Rebellion of 1857: The ‘Loyal Indian Woman’ in ‘Mutiny Fiction’
The colonial ‘Mutiny novel’ was a highly popular literary genre in the nineteenth century. An important trope that recurrently appeared in these writings was that of the ‘loyal Indian woman’. This was constituted in the figure of the devoted ayah, the loyal dancing girl and the English hero's faithful concubine/wife. Additionally, there was the trope of female friendship across the race divide. Far from being a reflection of existing social relat…
Between power and 'purdah: The white woman in British India, 1858-1900
Devoted Wife/Sensuous Bibi: Colonial Constructions of the Indian Woman, 1860-1900
Current research has rather tended to neglect the print culture of 19th-century British India and its contribution towards the formation of gender ideologies. This article attempts to scrutinise the clamorous voices of the print culture: the newspapers, popular periodicals as well as copious published works, and to unravel the complex and sometimes contradictory web of constructions that ihese built around the gendered colonised. The second half …
Gendering (Anglo) India: Rudyard Kipling and the Construction of Women
Between power and 'purdah: The white woman in British India, 1858-1900
Gendering (Anglo) India: Rudyard Kipling and the Construction of Women
Devoted Wife/Sensuous Bibi: Colonial Constructions of the Indian Woman, 1860-1900
Current research has rather tended to neglect the print culture of 19th-century British India and its contribution towards the formation of gender ideologies. This article attempts to scrutinise the clamorous voices of the print culture: the newspapers, popular periodicals as well as copious published works, and to unravel the complex and sometimes contradictory web of constructions that ihese built around the gendered colonised. The second half …
Kumkum Sangari, Politics of the Possible: Essays on Gender, History, Narrative, Colonial English. New Delhi: Tulika. 1999. 503 pages. Rs. 650 (hb)
Gendering the Rebellion of 1857: The ‘Loyal Indian Woman’ in ‘Mutiny Fiction’
The colonial ‘Mutiny novel’ was a highly popular literary genre in the nineteenth century. An important trope that recurrently appeared in these writings was that of the ‘loyal Indian woman’. This was constituted in the figure of the devoted ayah, the loyal dancing girl and the English hero's faithful concubine/wife. Additionally, there was the trope of female friendship across the race divide. Far from being a reflection of existing social relat…
Colonial Domesticities, Contentious Interactions: Ayahs, Wet-Nurses and Memsahibs in Colonial India
Nineteenth and early 20th century colonial writings projected the colonial home as a microcosm of the empire. However, as this article argues, the memsahibs’ imperial authority was often undermined by the dynamics of domestic relationships inside the home. Complex and contradictory, they threatened to render the colonial home an ambivalent—and even contested—space. In particular, the location of two female servants inside the colonial nursery—the…
Memsahibs and Health in Colonial Medical Writings, c. 1840 to c. 1930
Medical literature in colonial India, written mainly for the guidance of colonial personnel, became an important tool for dissemination of western medical knowledge and information but also reinforced wider colonial agendas. Focused mainly on men’s health, only few books or sections in this genre of literature addressed white middle class women’s health issues. This article examines several medical manuals within the wider parameters of race, cla…
Writing English, Writing Reform: Two Indian Women’s Novels of the 19th Century
The 1890s saw two literary interventions in English by pioneering Indian women; these were the novels, Ratanbai: A Sketch of a Bombay High-Caste Hindu Young Wife written by Shevantibai Nikambe and Saguna: A Story of Native Christian Life by Krupabai Satthianadhan. Both writers, who were Brahmin converts to Christianity, were deeply involved in debates on female education. Their texts too focus on gendered social reform, especially on female educa…
Gendered transactions: The white woman in colonial India, c. 1820–1930
Gendered Transactions: The White Woman in Colonial India, C. 1820-1930
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