Early feminists of colonial India
Bharati Ray
Oxford University Press
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There is a species known as WASP. They are supposed to be the privileged of the world. Needless to say they are human, in the pejorative sense of the word; normally they are male; normally again, they are the upper class of the species that are so privileged. They are not wasps, but they have been stinging the rest of creation for millennia.
At their antipodes are those humans of the third world, they are female, usually though not always, of the lower class and caste and it
