In So Many Words: Women’’s Life Experiences from Western and Eastern India

This book explores women’s life experiences from western and eastern India. In this book, readings of personal narratives help in painting various images of lives that we can only know at second hand. The mélange includes memoirs, published articles, ’portraits from memory’, a collection of essays, and an oral interview.

Aparna Basu is currently Patron of the All-India Women’s Conference, and Chairperson, Lakshmibai College, Unversity of Delhi. Her publications include Growth of Education and Political Development in India, 1898-1920 (1974); and A Rebel With a Cause: Mridula Sarabhai (1996).

Malavika Karlekar is Editor of Indian Journal of Gender Studies. Her publications include Poverty and Women’s Work: A Study of Sweeper Women in Delhi (1982); Voices from Within: Early Personal Narratives of Bengali Women (1991); Re-Visioning the Past: Early Photography in Bengal, 1875-1915 (2005).