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MEN AT HOME: Imagining Liberation in Colonial and Postcolonial India
by Gyanendra Pandey
Published by Orient
BlackSwan
xiii+222 pages ₹1,190
My grandfather often narrated a story about a friend who once deviated from his daily routine and returned home in the afternoon, rather than his usual late-night hour. His wife, startled by this disruption, shut the door in his face saying, “He is not home.” Amusing and apocryphal, this anecdote encapsulates the stark separation of male and female domains — so rigid that a man, encountered out of context, became a stranger in his own home.
The academic interest in this separation is not
