ANINDITA GHOSH is Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Manchester. Her published work in the form of journal articles and contribution to edited volumes so far, focuses on the commercial vernacular book market in Bengal, and the social history of print in colonial India. Her monograph based on these themes is, "Power in Print: Popular publishing and the Politics of Language and Culture in a Colonial Society, 1778-1905," Her present paper and the idea of the conference itself stem from a long-term interest in everyday resistance in the life of women, a topic that features partially i...