The Indian Female Body in the Hands of Empire: Victorian Influences on Indian Women's Writing at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Authors

  • Chandani Lokugé

Keywords:

Indian liteature, women, colonialism, literature, Victorian period

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2020-06-11

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Lokugé, C. (2020). The Indian Female Body in the Hands of Empire: Victorian Influences on Indian Women’s Writing at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies, 1(1), 77-87. https://openjournals.library.sydney.edu.au/AJVS/article/view/13306