Discuss the features of feminist historiography in India.

The literature written mainly by women and concerned to women is called feminist literature. Firstly, the women’s movement in India was a social movement that had to factor in the highly stratified nature of Indian society.

Thus, it dealt with variables not only of gender and class but also caste, region and religion. In India there is not one patriarchy. “Patriarchies” emerge because of their overlapping with feudalism, caste and with rural and urban experiences.

Secondly, the earliest feminists were men who had set out to introduce reforms in upper caste Hindu society addressing social evils like child marriage, dowry, female illiteracy and the practice of sati. This necessarily limited their goals and vision since they did not question patriarchy or its unequal distribution of property rights.

Many latter day feminist scholars felt that this agenda overlapped or intersected the agenda of the National movement which was an upper caste, Hindu, male-dominated one, and that women had been used to further the nationalist agenda without any redressed of their true positions in society as unequal and oppressed being on the basis of gender.

Thirdly, feminist readings of literature and society came out of the works of historians, sociologists, social workers, political theorists and not out of departments of English Literature. In fact, feminist writing in English in India is largely in the nature of critical responses to literature, history and society.

In other words, literary production in English lacked a feminist perspective or a feminist literary theory that was culture-specific. It is clear that when we come to the Indian context, in order to evolve a feminist canon of Indian English writing, we need to depend on the definitions and perspectives provided by the Anglo-American tradition.

Finally and most importantly, all significant feminist writing by men and women, and there is large corpus of it, was in the regional literatures as it continues to be even today. Though Indian writing in

English has been singularly lacking in a feminist perspective; however, the female voice or figure or concern or world has registered to a considerable extent in Indian English Writing. But in evolving the cannon of feminist Indian English Writing, we first need to evolve the theory of a female aesthetic. In the absence of any authoritative definition of a female aesthetic we need to consider very carefully, the many ways in which writing can be feminist.

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