Discuss the various ways in which high caste women experienced widowhood during the colonial period and its critique developed by Pandita Ramabai.

1. Discuss the various ways in which high caste women experienced widowhood during the colonial period and its critique developed by Pandita Ramabai.

(Key words that should be included – sati, ascetic widowhood, colonial critique, Raja Rammohun Roy, High Caste Hindu Woman)

2. Discuss the literary representations of same-sex relationships (through the short story Lihaaf and Rekhti poetry) in South Asia. To what extent was it able to portray the prevalence of such relationships in society?

Rubrics:

1. Introduction, main body; conclusion; 2. the essay should cover all the readings on a given topic.