Understanding the discursive context: Production of muslim women as invisible in the written history of colonial Bengal
This thesis is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts in English, 2019.
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10361-139782020-08-18T21:01:24Z Understanding the discursive context: Production of muslim women as invisible in the written history of colonial Bengal Chowdhury, Sanjida Azim, Dr Firdous Department of English and Humanities, Brac University Hindu-Muslim women 19th century Bengal Secularism Colonialism Religion This thesis is submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Arts in English, 2019. Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (pages 59-61). This paper studies the social milieu that produced Muslim women as “invisible” and “backward” in the written history, shaped by Hindu/Brahmo dominated nationalist discourse in Bengal. It questions the political atmosphere, social context, religious factors, and the literature published in different periodicals that put Muslim women’s identity in a gray area. With the emergence of anti-colonial nationalist movement, the construction of ideal Indian womanhood unfolded multiple aspects of women’s lives in patriarchal families.It also talks about gender and communal identities that denied Muslim women’s agency, even though they spoke and wrote publicly.To identify the relationship between historical invisibility of Muslim women and the overwhelming visibility of Hindu women, I looked at novels written by Rokeya Sakhawat Hossein. Rokeya created female characters that were beyond the time yet to born. This paper is concerned with the formation of those women and the social context that necessitated that formation. Sanjida Chowdhury B.A. in English 2020-08-18T15:43:39Z 2020-08-18T15:43:39Z 2019 2019-12 Thesis ID 13303008 http://hdl.handle.net/10361/13978 en_US Brac University theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. 61 pages application/pdf Brac University |
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