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Tthe database contain items as varied in type from newspaper reports, film clips and scholarly journal articles, in subject from sociology to anthropology touching onto film studies and temporally from 1930's onto the 2000's. Debates into homogenization as a nationalist paradigm, constitutional rights of the individual, position of women in the Hindu society, et al are tagged and browsing by the tags allows a journey through the material which might be removed from actual linear tracking of the resources.
What this database aims to do is provide directions for a series of subsequent researches, which in turn add up as a resource for the database. This is by no means a completed endeavour and ideally grows with usage and contributions.
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Featured Collections:Newspaper ArticlesA Collection of articles and reports collected from the daily newspapers in an around the period of passage of the Hindu Marriage Act: reports of parliamentary debates, articles from women's pages and… Film ReviewsA Collection of reviews of Bengali films of the era in an around the passage of the Hindu Marriage Act, from contemporary daily newspapers and film journals. Product AdvertisementsA collection of various products, specially beauty products aimed at women consumers, from the newspapers and magazines of the period. |
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Woman versus Womanliness in India: An Essay in Cultural and Political PsychologyThe essay involves an analysis of the constricted role of woman in Indian society and public affairs as part of an ongoing process of civilisational…
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Review: BratachariniReview of the film Bratacharini published in the Kartik, 1362 (Nov-Dec, 1955) issue of the Chitrabani magazine. |