This book analyses the role of women in the films of one of the leading filmmakers of the ‘Third World’ in the 1950s, Satyajit Ray, a national icon in filmm

Argues that films help Indian men handle their ambivalences about modernity by rooting their sense of "Indianness" in women's acceptance of traditional food hab

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The Liberal Studies journal is a trans-disciplinary bi-annual journal of the School of Liberal Studies, Pandit Deendayal Energy University, INDIA. Each issue of