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The politics of representation and the “ideal Malayalee woman”: Remembering Malayalam women’s magazines of the early 20th-century Kerala, South India

Sruthi VinayanIndian Institute of Technology, Madras, IndiaCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 399-411 | Published online: 15 Feb 2019

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