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020			_a9780199482900
028			_a: Brijwasi Book Distributors _b: H-87, Lalita Park, Laxmi Nagar, Delhi _c: BW/000212 _d: 16/05/2025
082			_a305.42 MED
100			_aMedhi, Hemjyoti.
245			_aGendered Publics _b: Chandraprava Saikiani and the Mahila Samitis in Colonial Assam. _c/ Hemjyoti Medhi.
260			_a, New Delhi _b: Oxford University Press _c, 2023.
300			_axxvii, 311p. _c: 24cm.
365			_b1185
520			_aThis work is the first comprehensive effort to recover the forgotten histories of the highly impactful women's association, the Assam Mahila Samiti, and the life and times of its founding secretary Chandraprava Saikiani, who was a celebrated writer, mobilizer, and publisher, despite being an unwed mother and belonging to a 'lower' caste. The book traverses the individual and collective journeys of Saikiani and the mahila samitis from the 1920s to the 1950s in conversation with parallel tribal-caste and literary associations, anti-colonial movements and international ideological paradigms such as the Bolshevik revolution. It also makes significant methodological interventions in interdisciplinary studies through the careful interweaving of print sources with handwritten minutes of early mahila samiti meetings, performative spaces such as Women's singing of naam kirtan, women's weaving and women's memory (recorded as part of a digital archive of the mahila samitis in Assam). It provides insights into issues related to history and memory, literary studies, and nascent vernacular publics in South Asia and Women's Studies.
650			_aAssam Mahila Samiti
650			_aWomen's association
650			_aTribal-caste and literary associations
700			_aHemjyoti Medhi
942			_cBOOK
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