Luke’s Reviews > Women Writing in India: 600 B.C. to the Present, II: The Twentieth Century > Status Update

Varsha Adalja; Gujarati
Gauri Deshpande; Marathi
Malini Bhattacharya; Bengali
Ambai; Tamil
Chhaya Datar; Marathi
Meherunnisa Pervez; Hindi
Pratibha Ray; Oriya

Panna Naik; Gujarati
Anupama Niranjana; Kannada
Brahmotri Mahanti; Oriya
Madhavikutty (Kamala Das); Malayalam
Sugatha Kumari; Malayalam
Rajee Seth; Hindi
Wajeda Tabassum; Urdu
Binapani Mohanty; Oriya
Manjul Bhagat; Hindi
Jeelani Bano; Urdu

Zahida Zaidi; Urdu
Rajalekshmy; Malayalam
Kabita Sinha; Bengali
Chudamani Raghavan; Tamil
Mannu Bhandari; Hindi
Ratakonda Vasundhara Devi; Telugu
Meena Kumari Naz; Urdu
Jaya Mehta; Gujarati
Abburi Chaya Devi; Telugu

Dudala Salamma; Telugu
Dhiruben Patel; Gujarati (hoping to track her down in fuller form)
Mahasweta Devi; Bengali (top rec from me)
Sajida Zaidi; Urdu
Anuradha Potdar ; Marathi
Kundanika Kapadia; Gujarati
Kamal Desai ; Marathi

Shanta Shelke - Pannashi Ultunhi (Even Past Fifty); Marathi
Achanta Sarada Devi - Moonlight Locked in the Woods; Telugu
Shivani (Gaura Pant) - Dadi; Hindi
Hansa Wadkar - You Ask, I Tell: An Autobiography; Marathi
Siddiqa Begum Sevharvi - The Stars Are Trembling; Urdu

Authors excerpted thus far:

Rasheed Jahan - Woh (That One); Urdu
Indira Sant - Selected Poetry; Marathi
Ismat Chughtai - The Quilt & Other Stories; Urdu
M.K. Indira - Phaniyamma; Kannada
Razia Sajjad Zaheer - Neech (Lowborn); Urdu

'...contain what was described as the growing threat from an Islam that demanded transnational loyalty." Oh, the worlds to be unpacked from that, especially the last quarter century of my home country.

...even as the feminist act of recovery establishes a historical legitimacy for women's writing, it consolidates the hold of a (liberal) humanism and with it the political imperatives that underwrote the setting up of literary studies as a major agent of that ideology.