Women Writing in India: 600 BC to the Present

This volume offers 150 texts from 13 languages never before available in English. The editors of this book, together with 11 regional language editors, unearthed an astonishingly rich history of Indian women writers, from 6th century BC Buddhist nuns to polemical writers of the 19th century, from rebel medieval poets to 20th-century printer-publishers. The writings these women produced – vibrant and diverse, serious and funny – illuminate over 200 years of Indian women’s lives.