Anglophone Indian Women Writers, 1870-1920

Brinks examines the work of Toru Dutt, Krupabai Satthianadhan, Pandita Ramabai, Cornelia Sorabji and Sarojini Naidu. These women are deeply rooted and connected to both South Asian and Western cultures and found large audiences in their public roles as writers, reformers, activists and cultural translators. Informed by extensive archival work, Brinks's close readings of their literary writings suggest new ways of understanding a range of issues central to feminist postcolonial studies.

Introduction; Chapter 1 Translating Hindustan: Toru Dutt's Poems and Letters; Chapter 2 Gendered Spaces and Conjugal Reform in Krupabai Satthianadhan's Kamala: A Story of Hindu Life; Chapter 3 Feminizing Famine, Imperial Critique: Pandita Ramabai's Famine Essays; Chapter 4 The Imperial Family Begins in the Nursery: Cornelia Sorabji's 'Baby-fication' of Empire; Chapter 5 The Voice of India: Sarojini Naidu's Nationalist Poetics; epilo Epilogue;