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The Frail Hero and Virile History: Gender and the Politics of Culture in Colonial Bengal. By Indira Chowdhury. SOAS Studies on South Asia. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998. xiii, 193 pp. $22.95 (cloth).

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The Frail Hero and Virile History: Gender and the Politics of Culture in Colonial Bengal. By Indira Chowdhury. SOAS Studies on South Asia. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998. xiii, 193 pp. $22.95 (cloth).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2010

Parama Roy
Affiliation:
University of California, Riverside

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Book Reviews—South Asia
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000