Self-Making through Self-Writing: Non-Sovereign Agency in Women's Memoirs from the Naxalite Movement
Women were active participants in the Naxalite movement of the 1960s and 1970s in India but were made invisible in the mainstream historiography of the movement. However, memoirs and autobiographies of women Naxalites bring out their experiences of participation in the movement. This paper engages w...
Main Author: | Lipika Kamra |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Centre d’Etudes de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud
2013-10-01
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Series: | South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal |
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Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/samaj/3608 |
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