[Reader-list] Women's hostels- 2nd posting

[shefali jha]

Hello.

As part of our project on Women's hostels as urban spaces in Hyderabad,we 
have spent the past month doing research into the history of the Women's 
hostel at Osmania University,which is one of our case-studies,the other 
being the CIEFL (Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages)women's 
hostel.We have been looking at general histories of Hyderabad and documents 
relating to the hostels,dealing with their establishment,architecture,rules 
etc.Most of this has happened through spending long hors in the University 
Library.
The other aspect of our work has been talking to people,and this is in 
keeping with the general approach we intend to adopt,combining research with 
interviews,personal narratives etc.We have spoken to a few 'old-timers' at 
CIEFL and hope to get discussions and exhaustive interview sessions going.We 
have also met some of the faculty at Osmania University,who have been of 
great help in leading us to possible candidates for interaction,that 
is,their students.
The next month will be spent building on these slender leads and basically 
talking to different women in an effort to achieve some sort of a grounding 
in their experience of hostel-life and how it relates to their experience of 
the city.These women come from diverse backgrounds and it will be 
interesting to see how they locate themselves in relation to the 
hostel-space,and how this space changes with their interaction.

Shefali & Navaneetha, Hyderabad.



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