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

Abstract

Introduction: Contextualising Gender and Identity in Contemporary India (Zoya Hasan.) Reading and Writing about Muslim Women in British India (Barbara D. Metcalf.) Gender and the Politics of Space: The Movement for Womens Reform 18571900 (Faisal F. Devji.) Defining Women through Legislation (Shahida Lateef.) Minority Identity, State Policy and Political Process (Z. Hasan.) Identity Politics, Secularism, and Women: A South Asian Perspective (Amrita Chhachhi.) The Constitution and Muslim Personal Law (Kirti Singh.) Between Community and State: The Question of Womens Rights and Personal Laws (Maitrayee Mukhopadhyay.) Education, Money, and the Role of Women in Maintaining Minority Identity (Elizabeth A. Mann.) Preserving Identity: A Case Study of Palitpur (Huma Ahmed-Ghosh.) Communal Property/Sexual Property: On Representations of Muslim Women in a Hindu Nationalist Discourse (Paola Bacchetta.) Muslim Socials and the Female Protagonist: Seeing a Dominant Discourse at Work (Fareed Kazmi.) Urdu, Awadh, and the Tawaif: The Islamicate Roots of Hindi Cinema (Mukul Kesavan.).

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