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A Mutiny Of Silence: Swarnakumari Devi's Sati, Teresa Hubel
A Mutiny Of Silence: Swarnakumari Devi's Sati, Teresa Hubel
Department of English Publications
Aim:
To discuss how Swarnakumari Devi's family connections as much as her sex contributed to why her work faded from the memory of nationalist India.
Introduction:
The historical context that helped to produce the writing of Swarna-kumari Devi Ghosal also gives us a glimmer into some of the possible reasons why her work faded from the literary memory of nationalist India. Some of that context is hinted at in the back pages of her collection of short stories in English, published in 1919 by Ganesh and Co., Madras. Reminding us of the inescapable connection between capitalism and knowledge, these back …