What happens to a book when you bring not one or two or three but 30 minds to it? Does the text shrink under so many gazes? Does it refract into a hundred different beams of interpretation?
Her book unpacks how the abolishment of Sati and the advancement in women's education in the 19th century gave women's status a positive spin, but at the same time, colonial powers reshaped women's image and social position in the subcontinent.