In this episode we consider a book first published in India in 1905 in Colonial Bengal. The story was published in Bengali newspapers and was well recognised as a witty and interesting tale of reverse purdah. As such, it is a utopian tale in which the women are in control and are in charge of all major institutions of the public sphere.
The text is available online as a free to read online version. It is a short read as you may expect from a story in a newspaper.
We refer to the book Inglorious Empire by Shashi Tharoor - what the British did to India.
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