History Professor Swapna Banerjee recently published her monograph, Fathers in a Motherland: Imagining Fatherhood in Colonial India (Oxford University Press, 2022), that breaks new ground by weaving stories of fathers and children into the history of gender, family and nation in colonial India. Focusing on the reformist Bengali Hindu and Brahmo communities, the author contends that fatherhood assumed new meaning and significance in late nineteenth and early twentieth-century India. In addition to her book, Banerjee also co-edited a volume Mapping Women’s History : Recovery, Agency, Resistance in Colonial and Postcolonial India (Kolkata: Stree-Samya, 2022), an insightful four part collection on: I Recovery and Reminiscences; II Feminism: Agency and Resistance; III Activism; and IV Reflections.
