TY  - BOOK
AU  - Siganporia, Harmony
TI  - I am the Widow: an intellectual biography of Behramji Malabari 
SN  - 9789352873906
U1  - 303.4840 SIG-H 
PY  - 2018///
CY  - India
PB  - Orient BlackSwain
KW  - Social reformers
KW  - Malabari, Behramji M. (Behramji Merwanji), 1853-1912
KW  - India
KW  - India--Gujarat
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Authors, Gujarati
N1  - An examination and critical analysis of the life-work and times of behramji merwanji malabari (1853“1912)”parsi social reformer, journalist, poet, proto ethnographer/anthropologist, travel writer, and a vital catalyst of change who did much to shape the National reform discourse” I am the widowed; is an  intellectual biography  that compares and analyses  his diverse writings and concerns  individually, and in relation to  each other.&Nbsp; this exercise reveals a society in transition in the late nineteenth century, providing; us with an understanding of this crucial and formative moment in Indian history.
The book  also evaluates malabaris lifelong commitment to working for the uplift of women, particularly widows, even as it explores the politics of representation and outlines some of the tensions that such a voicing of ˜Womens issues by male reformers such as malabari entails.

whether observing his own Parsi community, women, the British coloniser, or India and Indians at large, as a litterateur and Quasi cultural anthropologist, malabari possessed  the ˜innate human ability to identify with another as much as ˜the ability to refuse to identify solely with oneself.&Nbsp; malabari had two biographies written about him before he was forty,  and  a third two years after his death. He  then  vanished  almost completely from the pages of Parsi and Indian history, reduced  at best  to a footnote. This  fourth biography  attempts to discover why.
This text will be a  rare and  valuable asset to scholars of history, culture studies and literary studies
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