Talking of Power

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As Tanika Sarkar states succinctly in this anthology, 'around the middle of the nineteenth century, a social category was born in Bengal, along with a new word that named it: Lakhika or the female author.' These writings, translated for the first time from the Bengali, are by women who were amongst the earliest to receive a 'modern' education and become members of the reading and writing public. Women wrote on a wide variety of concerns, in the many jourmals that had came into being because of the tremendous growth of vernacular print culture. These were often edited by women, including some of the writers in the anthology: Bharat Mahila, Bharati o Balak, Aantahpur, Mahila, and Bharati, to mention just a few. The writers' contributions helped build the image of the new educated women, self-confident, opinionated, transgressive.

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Malini Bhattacharya is Director, school of Women's Studies, and Professor of English, both of jadavpur University.Abhijit Sen is Publication Officer, School of Women's Studies, Jadavpur University.