• ISBN13: 9780199450374
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: Sociology and Anthropology
• Publisher: Oxford UP
• Publisher Imprint: Oxford UP
• Publication Date: January 1, 2015
• Pages: 296
• Original Price: INR 595.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 318 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Asian / Indic and LGBTQ+

A fiery proponent of the independence of women, Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932) was denied formal education, but emerged as a leading thinker and writer of her time and founded a school for girls. Set against the backdrop of surging nationalism and reform in the twentieth-century Bengal, this selection of writings by Rokeya captures the true spirit of a South Asian proto-feminist who is every bit as radical as her contemporaries-Virginia Woolf and Charlotte Perkins Gilman. From 'Sultana's Dream', a canonical work of Rokeya, to writings on women's status in a patriarchal set-up, her comments on 'feeble' Bengali society, purdah [veil] system, religion, and the idea of a perfect housewife among others, this work will open up a factual, fictional, and fantastical-utopian world, which remained largely unknown and unheard outside Bengal.

Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, Writer, Ratri Roy, Former Professor/Head, Department of English, Patna University, India, Prantosh Bandyopadhyay, Peace Activist/Rokeya scholar

Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (author): A fiery proponent of the independence of women, Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain was a leading writer of her time and founded a school for girls.

Ratri Roy (translator) is former Professor and Head, Department of English, Patna University, India.

Prantosh Bandyopadhyay (translator) is a peace actvisit and Rokeya scholar.