IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/sae/indgen/v16y2009i3p329-358.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Saogat and the Reformed Bengali Muslim Woman

Author

Listed:
  • Sarmistha Dutta Gupta

    (Sarmistha Dutta Gupta is Research Collaborator, Institute of Development Studies Kolkata (IDSK). This essay is part of her current work on ‘Identities and Histories: Politics and Women’s Writings in Bengal’. An earlier draft of the paper was presented at the School of Women’s Studies, Jadavpur University, in April 2006. E-mail: sarmistha91@yahoo.com.)

Abstract

This article explores the interface of politics and women’s writing in late colonial Bengal and traces the trajectory of identity formation of middle-class Bengali Muslim women through a reading of the history of Saogat—founded in 1918, the liberal reformist periodical acclaimed to have mentored some of the best-known women writers of Muslim Bengal. Taking into account some of the changes in the political climate of Bengal from the 1920s to the 1940s, the paper researches the influence of politics on the changing course of Saogat and the moving of women’s voices to a separate domain—the women’s weekly, Begum, established a few weeks before the partition of India in 1947. In doing so, it recognises the plurality in elite women’s writing in Bengal in this period and shows how the shifting grounds of a periodical in relation to categories of identity like religion and state politics, shapes women’s writing produced therein.

Suggested Citation

  • Sarmistha Dutta Gupta, 2009. "Saogat and the Reformed Bengali Muslim Woman," Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Centre for Women's Development Studies, vol. 16(3), pages 329-358, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:indgen:v:16:y:2009:i:3:p:329-358
    DOI: 10.1177/097152150901600302
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/097152150901600302
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1177/097152150901600302?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sae:indgen:v:16:y:2009:i:3:p:329-358. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: SAGE Publications (email available below). General contact details of provider: .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.