Just then one of the family's agricultural laborers came into the courtyard. Learn English Stories Offline. The existence of this volume bears testimony not only to the ways fieldwork has a mind of its own but to the strength of Indian women's voices and the complex, arresting beauties of their expressive genres. Further, the very existence of a text like the Stridharmapaddhati indicates, perhaps, the existence of contrary discourses on gender and "women's nature. Privileged white Americans commenting on relatively poor and often nonliterate Indian villagers, we recog-.
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