Volume 6, No. 1 – 2006 History of Education of Women in Kerala Vol. VI - No. 1 - January 2006 Editorial History of Education of Women in Kerala Editorial by G. S. Jayasree Articles History of Education of Women in Kerala 1819–1947 by HEPSI GLADSTONThe Land of the Conch Shell by AUGUSTA M. BLANDFORDA Fresh look at the Atharva Veda- Rati Saxena’s ’The Seeds of the mind’ by SUJA KURUPThe Hidden side of Group Behaviour: A Gender Analysis of Community Forestry in South Asia by BINA AGARWALMothers in a Conflict – Ridden ‘Her land’: The Mothers of Maya Diip by Suniti Namjoshi by K.S.VAISHALIPatriarchy in Punjab:documenting the Narratives of Women from Three Generations of Jat Sikh Families of Punjab by MANVINDER KAUR AMEER SULTANAA Signpost for the Future: Mary Wollstonecraft as Pioneer Feminist by ESTHER JAYANTHI Fiction The South Bank Show by SHANTA ACHARYAWind Chimes by HARMISTHA GHOSH Poetry Love Songs in the Atharva veda by RATI SAXENAI am the poet (Inspired by Debjani Chatterjee’s poem, was that Woman’) by USHA KISHOREI am a Woman by PARINEETHA SHETTYThe Fluid Female by BINI SAJIL Translation Ahalya by N.S. MADHAVANThe Scream of the Earth by P. SURENDRANSleepless in Wyanad by P. VALSALASaketam by C.N.SREEKANTAN NAIRLiaison by K. P. SUDHEERA