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Wandering Women presents sixteen travelogues that were originally published in Bengali periodicals (samayik patrikas) like Bamabodhini Patrika, Antahpur, and Mahila, among others, narrating the places these Bengali women visited and the people they met while highlighting nationalist and universalist values. Unlike conventional Western women's narratives, these travel narratives by colonized women are unique since they reiterate, confront, and subvert inherited colonial stereotypes in their encounters with the West; however, in their travels to the East they themselves become colonial in their analyses. Women's travel narratives are hugely important for assessing the position of women and their intellectual development within societal growth in late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in India. Publication in vernacular periodicals empowered both writer and reader, creating a world for, by, and of women.

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Sarvani Gooptu is Professor of Asian literary and cultural studies at Netaji Institute for Asian Studies, Kolkata. Her areas of research focus on nationalism and culture in Asia. Her published works include Knowing Asia, Being Asian (2021); The Actress in the Public Theatres of Calcutta (Primus Books, 2015); and The Music of Nationhood: Dwijendralal Roy of Bengal (Primus Books, 2018) for which she received the Hiralal Award for Best Woman Historian at the Indian History Congress in 2019. Indrani Bose is a retired teacher and has translated several articles for reputed journals. She has also published a recipe book, From Aam to Zucchini, as well as a translation of Homely Cooking by her mother Bijaya Dutta.

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