Shorter and less spectacular, the accounts in these periodicals are nonetheless a significant body of literature. Thereafter I will look at these still largely unknown writings, measure their significance for a women’s public and the Bengali literary sphere, and evaluate their setting in terms of gender and class. After laying out the state of the art, I will first introduce two of the established travelogues. Unlike the famous nineteenth-century Bengali travelogues by Krishnabhabini Das and Svarnakumari Debi, these other writings have only very recently drawn attention. Contesting this paradigm of female immobility, travelogues written by Bengali women simultaneously start to appear in the pages of such journals as Bāmābodhinıī Patrikā, Bhāratıī, Antaḥpur, etc., from the 1860s onwards. Pioneering women’s periodicals in Bengali in the second half of the nineteenth century eloquently deplore the social confinement of women.
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