Kardoo, the Hindoo Girl by Harriette G. Britain

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1869. William B Bodge. 2nd Edition.

Kardoo, a Hindu Brahmin girl, narrates her life from child to adulthood, focusing on particular religious and cultural incidents, which took place in her and her family members' lives. Kardoo the Hindoo Girl reiterates the fictional character of the autobiographical self at a different dimension. Kardoo was not the only endeavor of missionary Brittan to uplift women from non-Christian backgrounds. She wrote Shoshie, the Hindu Zenana Teacher, which was published in 1873 in New York. While the nineteenth-century American missionaries distinguished between race and culture, they rejected the biological determinism characterizing scientific racialism.