Cover; Title; Copyright; 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 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 PalitpurCommunal Property/Sexual Property: On Representations of Muslim Women in a Hindu Nationalist Discourse; Muslim Socials and the Female Protagonist: Seeing a Dominant Discourse at Work; Urdu, Awadh and the Tawaif: the Islamicate Roots of Hindi Cinema; Notes on Contributors; Index
Summary
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
