Join Us on January 19 to Discuss Transnational Feminism and the ‘New Indian Woman’

Your digital-neighborhood friends at RSVP’s Digital Events (Katy Birch, Sourav Chatterjee, Ali Hatapçi, Andrew Hobbs, and Priti Joshi) are happy to announce another year of talks, discussions, exchanges, and learning on all matters related to 19th-century periodicals of Britain and its empire.

Front page of newspaper, "The Woman's Signal," with header followed by three columns of text. A photograph of an Indian woman dominates the center column.

At our first event of 2024, we will hear about transnational feminism in periodicals from Tarini Bhamburkar in a talk entitled “Characterising the ‘New Indian Woman’: Indian Feminism and Indian Women’s Interviews in the Women’s Penny Paper and The Woman’s Signal.”

The talk will take place Friday, January 19 at 8 a.m. PST / 11 a.m. EST / 4 p.m. GMT / 5 p.m. CET.


About Our Speaker

Tarini Bhamburkar is a postgraduate researcher at the University of Bristol. She will be discussing how two Victorian feminist periodicals’ – the Women’s Penny Paper and The Woman’s Signal – coverage of the feminist activities of women in late Victorian India showcased an effort to inform British women of Indian women’s progress and also to embed the discourse of Indian women’s reform within British women’s own reform ideas.

The talk will also consider the representation and self-representation of two Indian women’s rights advocates – and the only racial minority – whose interviews were published in these periodicals, locating the analyses of these interviews in the context and perception of the ‘New Woman’ in both colony and metropole.

Tarini was also recently awarded VPR’s Expanding the Field prize. Congratulations, Tarini!