Women’s Writings from India, Pakistan and Bangladesh: The Worlds of Bangla and Urdu

01 October, 2019

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Edited by Rakhshanda Jalil and Debjani Sengupta

Edited by the literary historian and translator Rakhshanda Jalil and Debjani Sengupta, an assistant professor of English at Delhi University, this anthology puts together translations of women’s writing on political borders, identity, nationhood and feminism, as well as the trajectories of both the Bangla and Urdu languages.

Bloomsbury, 190 pages, Rs 599

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