This paper argues that we must look for stories like Ghoshal’s to claim that also ‘well-behaved’ women can, and should, make history, thus revealing a nuanced picture of otherwise black-and-white narrations.ĪB - Historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich famously wrote that ‘well-behaved women seldom make history’. Women like Ghoshal, who were not ‘exceptional’ but instead ‘well-behaved’, usually do not find a place in archives and historiography. Ghoshal, an externally impeccable bhadramahila yet with strong nationalist views, this paper contends that the emphasis on ‘ill-behaved’ women obscured forms of political awareness expressed by ‘conventional’ Bengali bhadramahilas. This idea seems apt for colonial India: historiography has tended to focus on ‘ill-behaved’ women (such as the Bengali terrorist Bina Das), who seem to stand out as ruptures against a background of otherwise-respected gendered norms of respectability, passivity, and subalternity.Through the memoir written by Mrs. N2 - Historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich famously wrote that ‘well-behaved women seldom make history’. T1 - When well-behaved women make history Abstract = "Historian Laurel Thatcher Ulrich famously wrote that women can, and should, make history, thus revealing a nuanced picture of otherwise black-and-white narrations.",
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