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On the Brahmo Samaj, Hindu social reform movement founded by Raja Rammohun Roy, 1772?-1833.
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Hardcover reprint of the original 1907 edition - beautifully bound in brown cloth covers featuring titles stamped in gold, 8vo - 6x9". No adjustments have been made to the original text, giving readers the full antiquarian experience. for quality purposes, all text and images are printed as black and white. This item is printed on demand. Book Information: S?£Ivanatha S?£A?Stri. Ramtanu Lahiri, Brahman and Reformer: A History of the Renaissance In Bengal. Indiana: Repressed Publishing LLC, 2012. Original Publishing: S?£Ivanatha S?£A?Stri. Ramtanu Lahiri, Brahman and Reformer: A History of the Renaissance In Bengal, . London: Swan Sonnenschein, 1907. Subject: Lahiri, Ramtanu, 1813-1898
Considers the meaning and nature of life history narrative in India.
Basing her work on Bengali-language sources, such as women's journals, private papers, biographies, and autobiographies, Meredith Borthwick approaches the lives of women in nineteenth-century Bengal from a new standpoint. She moves beyond the record of the heated debates held by men of this period—over matters such as widow burning, child marriage, and female education—to explore the effects of changes in society on the lives of women and to question assumptions about "advances" prompted by British rule. Focusing on the wives, mothers, and daughters of the English-educated Bengali professional class, Dr. Borthwick contends that many reforms merely substituted a restrictive British defini...
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