Of Captivity And Resistance: Women Political Prisoners In Postcolonial India

An intervention in the field of dissenting writings by women political detainees in India in the 1970s, and it straddles three interlinked areas: politics, prison and writing. It focuses on writings arising out of Bengal's Naxalite movement (1967-1975) and from the pan-Indian period of Emergency (1975-1977).

• | Author: Sharmila Purkayastha
• | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• | Publication Date: Sep 21, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 220 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1009273175
• | ISBN-13: 9781009273176