Forging Identities: Gender, Communities, And The State In India

by Zoya Hasan

Overview

This volume challenges the assumption that Muslims in India constitute a homogeneous community. Focusing specifically on gender issues, the contributors instead locate the Muslim womens community within the social, economic, and political developments that have taken place in the subcontinent, pre- and post-Independence, in order to examine how th

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367009380
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/18/2019
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 8.56(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction: Contextualising Gender and Identity in Contemporary India — Reading and Writing about Muslim Women in British India — Gender and the Politics of Space: the movement for women's reform, 1857-1900* — Defining Women through Legislation — Minority Identity, State Policy and the Political Process — Identity Politics, Secularism and Women: a South Asian perspective — The Constitution and Muslim Personal Law — Between Community and State: the question of women’s rights and personal laws — Education, Money, and the Role of Women in Maintaining Minority Identity — Preserving Identity: a case study of Palitpur1 — Communal Property/Sexual Property: on representations of Muslim women in a Hindu nationalist discourse1 — Muslim Socials and the Female Protagonist: seeing a dominant discourse at work — Urdu, Awadh and the Tawaif: the Islamicate roots of Hindi cinema