Mothering India Women's Fiction in English Shaping Cultural History, 1890-1947

Mothering India addresses this lack and concentrates on early Indian<br>women's fiction written between 1890 and 1947. It not only evaluates<br>the influence of women authors on the rise of IWE, but also explores<br>how they reassessed and challenged stereotypes about womanhood<br>in India, adding their voice to the larger debate about social reform<br>legislations on women's rights. Moreover, in choosing to write in<br>the colonizer's language, they seized the attention of a much wider<br>international readership. In wielding their pens, these trendsetting<br>women stepped into the literary landscape as 'speaking subjects', <br>refusing the passivity of being 'spoken-of objects', and thereby<br>'mothering' India by redefining her image