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Contributors:

   Zoya Hasan

Publisher:

   Westview Press

Place of Publication:

  Boulder, CO  

Publication Year:

  1994
Subjects:   Muslim Women--India, Women--India
Table of contents
Contents
Introduction: Contextualising Gender and Identity in Contemporary India Zoya Hasan vii
Reading and Writing about Muslim Women in British India Barbara D. Metcalf 1
Gender and the Politics of Space: The Movement for Women's Reform 1857-1900 Faisal F. Devji 22
Defining Women through Legislation Shahida Lateef 38
Minority Identity, State Policy and Political Process Zoya Hasan 59
Identity Politics, Secularism and Women: A South Asian Perspective Amrita Chhachhi 74
The Constitution and Muslim Personal Law Kirti Singh 96
Between Community and State: The Question of Women's Rights and Personal Laws Maitrayee Mukhopadhyay 108
Education, Money and the Role of Women in Maintaining Minority Identity Elizabeth A. Mann 130
Preserving Identity: A Case Study of Palitpur Huma Ahmed-Ghosh 169
Communal Property/Sexual Property: On Representations of Muslim Women in a Hindu Nationalist Discourse Paola Bacchetta 188
Muslim Socials and the Female Protagonist: Seeing a Dominant Discourse at Work Fareed Kazmi 226
Urdu, Awadh and the Tawaif, the Islamicate Roots of Hindi Cinema Mukul Kesavan 244
Notes on Contributors 258
Index 260
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Jewels of Authority: Women and Textual Tradition in Hindu India
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...commentaries of South India. In many ways...does indeed portray women as gift givers...such as that of the Muslims during the time...involving the RSS in India. In one case, the women of the RSS argue that Muslim women were ex-Hindu...Hindu men against Muslim men; in another, RSS women argued that the...the landscape of India was tantamount to...
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We Are Poor but So Many: The Story of Self-Employed Women in India
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...office hours, the women are forced to camp...extensive track record, India should have a lot...the total. Among women, the numbers are...working women in India, 6 percent work in...as long as z. Women and Men in the Informal...Delhi: Government of India, Ministry of Women...
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Women in the World of India
Book by Miranda Hunter, William Hunter; Mason Crest, 2005
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...more popular as Muslims moved into India. Women who did not observe...the strictest Muslim women still cover themselves...of the changes, India has a long way to...only by very strict Muslims. Women of India are seen as central...
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Women and Labour in Late Colonial India: The Bengal Jute Industry
Book by Samita Sen; Cambridge University Press, 1999
Subjects: Jute Industry--India--Bengal, Women--Employment--India--Bengal, Women--India--Bengal--Economic Conditions, Women--India--Bengal--Social Conditions
...subsequent marriages for Muslim women paithoo marriage...British in colonial India samasya problem...textile industries of India, employed a low proportion of women. This proportion...Department. 61 Women who wished to marry...husband to marry a Muslim. Her second husbands...Secretary, Servants of India Society. 60...
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Perceptions of Arranged Marriages by Young Pakistani Muslim Women Living in a Western Society *
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(Mis)appropriated Liberty: Identity, Gender Justice, and Muslim Personal Law Reform in India
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Take off Your Veil, Straw Tells Muslim Women
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), October 6, 2006
...is ever forgiving, gentle. From these and other references, Muslim scholars have determined that the minimum dress requirement for women - when in the presence of the opposite sex - is clothing that...scarf called a dupatta or chunari to cover their heads. In India there is no law enforcing dress as Hinduism is the dominant...
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The Moment I Laid Eyes on My Ashwani I Knew I Was Going to Marry Him; the Evening Standard Tracks Down the 18-Year-Old London Girl Who Defied Her Muslim Family, Eloping to India to Marry the Hindu Man She Met over the Internet
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), September 18, 2006
...moment I laid eyes on my Ashwani I knew I was going to marry him Muslim, told her she was to have no further contact with Ashwani. She began to hatch a plot to return to India.She started saving from her Education Maintenance Allowance...turned 21, the minimum legal age a man can marry in India (women must be at least 18). On the following Monday, 11 September...
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CHERIE'S MUSLIM ATTACK; PM's Wife Sparks Row on Visit to India
Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), September 9, 2005
CHERIES MUSLIM ATTACK; PMs Wife Sparks Row on Visit to India. Byline: By...she slated the way women are treated in the...Ministers wife said some Muslims treat women as second-class...religion. Speaking in India during an official...allowed to wear Muslim dress or not On...fantasy was to come to India and "fall in love...
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India: Rajasthani Palaces Offer a Magical, Mystical Tour
Newspaper article by Corinna Lothar; The Washington Times, September 11, 1999
Subjects: India, Rajasthan
...lose). Holi is not the only spectacular blaze of color in India, and nowhere is this love of color more evident than in Rajasthan...themselves into powerful royal houses that did battle with the Muslim (Mogul) invaders from the northwest to protect Hindu traditions...are aflame with bougainvillea. Rajasthanis, particularly the women, are open and friendly, curious and eager to talk to foreign...
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Albright Trip Seeks Warmer U.S.-India Relations: 3-Nation Tour Seen Tied to U.S. Policy on China
Newspaper article by Paige Bowers; The Washington Times, November 15, 1997
Subjects: Albright, Madeleine, China, India, Pakistan
...before the two leaders met. The United States funneled arms to Muslim rebels in Pakistan - Indias longtime adversary and neighbor - who were trying to oust Soviet troops from Afghanistan. India, meanwhile, was showing signs of growing threateningly close...We urge the secretary to make a statement about treatment of women in Afghanistan while shes in Pakistan. Its the best chance...
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Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...on their way to India. The Pathans...overwhelmingly (about 97%) Muslim country. Urdu is...seats reserved for women and 10 for non-Muslims...previous settlers in India, the Muslim immigrants were...seats reserved for women, who had previously...elected. A treaty with India governing the use...several thousand Muslims were massacred in...
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Harem
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...al-Hamid II. The sultans harem often contained several hundred women, all subject to the control of the sultans mother and guarded by eunuchs. In India the harem is called a purdah or zenana; in Iran, andarun...are still some in existence in the more remote areas of the Muslim world. See N. M. Penzer, The Harem (1937); D. Van Ess...
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Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...bo pal, former principality, Madhya Pradesh state, central India. A region of rolling downs and thickly forested hills, it is...was ruled from 1844 to 1926 by the begums of Bhopal, famous women leaders. Although the population was mainly Hindu, the princely family was Muslim. Bhopal became part of the state of Madhya Pradesh in 1956...
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Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...half of whom must be women) appointed by the...them on his way to India. After Alexanders...Turkish Tu-Kuie. The Muslim conquest of Afghanistan...Several short-lived Muslim dynasties were founded...to the Punjab in India early in the 11th...influence, invaded India (1919). This third...the freedom of its women provoked opposition...
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...Iraq, Syria, Jordan, the Arabian Peninsula states, and Turkey. India also has one of the worlds largest Muslim populations, although Islam is not the principal religion there...laws, Islamic rights and obligations apply equally to men and women. The actual situation of women is more a function of particular...
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