TY - BOOK AU - Mallick,Saptarshi TI - Connecting spaces: the travelogues and letters of Lady Abala Bose SN - 9781032624440 PY - 2024/// KW - Bose, Abala, KW - Tagore, Rabindranath, KW - Women KW - India KW - Kolkata KW - Biography KW - Social Work KW - Sociology KW - Bengal (India) KW - Social life and customs KW - 20th century KW - Kolkata (India) KW - History N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Abala Bose's travelogues -- Preface to the letters between Lady Abala Bose and Rabindranath Tagore -- Letters of Abala Bose and Rabindranath Tagore N2 - "This book examines how nineteenth-century Bengal witnessed women writers like Krishnabhabini Devi, Prasanyamoyee Devi, Swarnakumari Devi and Abala Bose interrogated social stereotypes. It presents the first translation of travel writings and letters by Abala Bose, and examines an Indian woman's close observation as she toured India in colonial times and Europe, America and Japan at the height of British imperialism. Her travelogues in colonial India and imperial England relate to and interrogate the hegemonic role of Western ideologies and deconstruct stereotypes of women's travelogues, thus contributing to the female consciousness and tradition of women's writings. The volume will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of South Asian history, imperial and colonial history, and gender and women's studies"-- ER -