Feminism inverted: The real women and gendered imagery of Hindu nationalism

Abstract

If one was to imagine the gendered imagery and female leadership associated with Hindu “communalism,” the images that would come to mind are of women as self-sacrificing, long-suffering, nonviolent victims. Such images find fullest expression in both Hinduism and Gandhian nationalism, but associations of women with pacifism persist even within many agrarian social movements, a prime example of which is the Chipko movement against deforestation. These images derive their force partly from their singularity: to represent the diversity of women's life experience might undermine their roles as icons.

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