At the Margins of Empire
Feminist-Nationalist Configurations of Burmese Society in the Hindi Public (1917-1920)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3618666 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Shobna Nijhawan (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 71 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1013-1033 |
| Publication date | 2012-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Journal of Asian Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-9118 • E-ISSN: 1752-0401 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0021911812001192 |
| OpenAlex | W2150021920 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 23 |
Embedded in early twentieth-century discourses on modernity, feminism, and nationalism, and written for the newly emerging woman reader, Rameshwari Nehru's Hindi account of Burmese women was an experiment in ethnographic writing. Along with the speeches she delivered in Burma (all reprinted in the Hindi women's periodical Stri Darpan), she also used the ethnography to call for the social and political mobilization of Burmese and Indian women. Nehru revisited the relationship between India and Burma in the gendered and elite terms of Indian (mostly Hindu) nationalism and social feminism. In describing a supposed intact social structure found in Burma, her motive was to portray a woman subject that was not modeled on prevalent conceptions of "the Western woman," but that originated in the neighborhood of the colonial present. In the process, as this paper argues, Nehru appropriated colonial discourses on Indian and Burmese womanhood, while she also absorbed Burma into her vision of Indian nationhood and imagined sisterhood
Ancient history · Burmese · Colonialism · Elite · Empire · Feminism · Hindi · Hindu nationalism · Hinduism · Modernity · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropology · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · Asian Studies and History · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
Specters of Mother India
Locations of Buddhism
Provincializing Europe
Theravāda Buddhism
Stories of Gender and Ethnicity
Rereading the Archive and Opening up the Nation-State
After the Imperial Turn
Fictions Of Feminist Ethnography
Materialising Oceania
Memsahibs’ Writings
Western women and imperialism
Cultural missionaries, maternal imperialists, feminist allies
Feminism under the Raj
Domesticity and Beyond
Anthropological communities of interpretation for Burma
The 'Traditional' High Status of Women in Burma
The white woman's burden
Home and Harem
The Modern Burmese Woman and the Politics of Fashion in Colonial Burma
| Citations per year | 0.27 |
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| Citation span | 2015 - 2016 (2) |
| Highly cited | No |