Tarabai Shinde
Tarabai Shinde | |
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| Born | 1850 British India , India)(now in Maharashtra |
| Died | 1910 (aged 59–60) |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Occupation(s) | feminist, women's rights activist, writer |
| Known for | criticising the social differences between men and women |
| Notable work | Stri Purush Tulana (A Comparison Between Women and Men) (1882) |
Tarabai Shinde (1850–1910)
Early life and family
Born in Maratha Family in the year 1850 to Bapuji Hari Shinde in Buldhana, Berar Province, in present-day Maharashtra, she was a founding member of the Satyashodhak Samaj, Pune. Her father was a radical and head clerk in the office of Deputy Commissioner of Revenues, he also published a book titled, "Hint to the Educated Natives" in 1871. There was no girls' school in the area. Tarabai was the only daughter who was taught Marathi, Sanskrit and English by her father. She also had four brothers.[4][5] Tarabai was married when quite young, but was granted more freedom in the household than most other Marathi wives of the time since her husband moved into her parents' home.[6]
Social work
Shinde was associate of social activists
"Stri Purush Tulana"
Tarabai Shindes popular literary work is "Stri Purush Tulana" .In her essay, Shinde criticised the social inequality of caste, as well as the patriarchal views of other activists who saw caste as the main form of antagonism in Hindu society. According to Susie Tharu and K. Lalita, "...Stri Purush Tulana is probably the first full fledged and extant feminist argument after the poetry of the Bhakti Period. But Tarabai's work is also significant because at a time when intellectuals and activists alike were primarily concerned with the hardships of a Hindu widow's life and other easily identifiable atrocities perpetrated on women, Tarabai Shinde, apparently working in isolation, was able to broaden the scope of analysis to include the ideological fabric of patriarchal society. Women everywhere, she implies, are similarly oppressed."
Stri Purush Tulana was written in response to an article which appeared in 1881, in Pune Vaibhav, an orthodox newspaper published from
See also
- Jyotirao Phule, another revolutionary who fought for the rights of women and dalits.
- Savitribai Phule, Wife of Jyotirao Phule, and social reformer.
References
- ^ Phadke, Y.D., ed. (1991). Complete Works of Mahatma Phule (in Marathi).
- ^ ISBN 978-1-55861-027-9.
- ISBN 978-81-317-0520-9.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-7914-3659-2.
- ISBN 978-0-415-91531-1.
- ^ a b Guha, Ramachandra (2011). Makers of Modern India. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. p. 119.
- ^ Roy, Anupama (24 February 2002). "On the other side of society". The Tribune.
- ^ Devarajan, P. (4 February 2000). "Poignant pleas of an Indian widow". Business Line.
- ISBN 978-0-7546-3411-9.
Sources
- Shinde, Tarabai. 1882. Stri purush tulana. (Translated by Maya Pandit). In S. Tharu and K. Lalita (Eds.) "Women writing in India. 600 B.C. to the present. Volume I: 600 B.C. to the early 20th century". The City University of New York City : The Feminist Press.
- Gail Omvedt. 1995. Dalit Vision, Orient Longman
- Chakravarti, Uma and Gill, Preeti (eds). Shadow Lives: Writings on Widowhood. Kali for Women, Delhi.
- O'Hanlon, Rosalind. 2000. A Comparison Between Women and Men : Tarabai Shinde and the Critique of Gender Relations in Colonial India. Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2000, 144 p., ISBN 0-19-564736-X.
- O'Hanlon, Rosalind. 1991. Issues of Widowhood: Gender and Resistance in Colonial Western India, in Douglas Haynes and Gyan Prakash (eds) "Contesting Power. Resistance and Everyday Social Relations in South Asia", Oxford University Press, New Delhi.
- O'Hanlon, Rosalind. 1994. For the Honour of My Sister Countrywomen: Tarabai Shinde and the Critique of Gender Relations in Colonial India, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
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