Colonial texts often read the Indian woman warrior as a cultural
anomaly, but Indian texts find recourse in the mythological examples of
the female warrior. Rani Lakshmi Bai's remaking transforms the
mythologically viable, yet socially marginal, figure of a woman in
battle into bounded and meaningful feminine roles such as daughter,
wife, mother, and queen. Women and the home were integral to how
nationalist discourse envisioned the modern, yet traditional, Indian
nation. The Rani remains a metaphoric referent of the home, and is an
abiding symbol of the nation, reinvented as authority, power, and
tradition. The depictions of the Rani signals what is at stake in
representing the unrestricted woman in the public sphere. The book
extends the discussion on what constitutes the historical archive of the
gendered colonial subject and the postcolonial rebel by being attentive
to the vexed figures produced within the competing ideologies of
colonialism and nationalism.
Product details
- Binding:
Hardcover
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- Language:
English
- ISBN-10: 1107042801
- ISBN-13: 9781107042803
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Author:
SINGH
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