Feminist Historiography with special reference of Pandita Ramabai and Tarabai Shinde

Swati Rajan

doi:10.32351/rca.v5.117

Authors

Swati Rajan Dept. of History Tikaram Jagannath Arts, Commerce and Science College, Khadki, Pune https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6255-5261

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32351/rca.v5.117

Política de Crossmark DOI: https://doi.org/10.32351/politica-crossmark

Keywords:

Feminism, Historiography, Women, Colonial Maharashtra

Abstract

In colonial Maharashtra women tried to converse with themselves and the society through biographies, autobiographies, articles in newspapers, journals and they even wrote books, trying to discuss women's issues that arose from the patriarchal system of society at the time. They criticized social customs and blind faith in religion pertaining women, very intensely. Their writings were theoretical and visionary, and stood out creating a baseline for feminist historiography; here my efforts are to interpret their writings from that point of view. The first part of this paper discusses the efforts of feminist historiography as a whole and the second part is based on the book, "The High Caste Hindu Woman" and "Stri-Purush Tulana" by Pandita Ramabai and Tarabai Shinde respectively.

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Author Biography

Swati Rajan, Dept. of History Tikaram Jagannath Arts, Commerce and Science College, Khadki, Pune

He has teaching the History for the last 27 years at ‘Tikaram Jagannath Arts, Commerce and Science College, Khadkee, Pune. His research interest lies broadly in ‘Modern India’ and more specifically themes exploring women’s studies and feminist historiography.
His short Contribution in Research is as follows:
(1) Successfully completed University Grants Commission’s (UGC’s) Minor Research Project on “Women’s Movement in the late 19th century in Maharashtra: Relevance to the 20th century”.
(2) “The Emerging Significance of Feminist Research and Methodology”, published in ‘Online International Interdisciplinary Research Journal’
(3) Some salient research articles published in Peer-Reviewed State and National Level Journals and Conferences’ proceedings: • “Rammohan Lohiya’s book ‘Nar-Nari’: Thoughts on Women’s Emancipation”
• “Women’s contribution to the political and Historical development of Maharashtra”
• “Pandita Ramabai: An Axiomatic Personality”
• “Role of Saint Women in Maharashtra: Feminist Interpretation”
• “Status of Women in Higher Education and Social Justice (?)”
• “Gender Issues and Interface”
• “Feminist Research and Methodology”

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