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By Nida Kirmani

The marginalisation of Muslims in India has lately been the topic of heated public debate. In those discussions, even if, Muslim girls are usually both neglected or handled as a homogenous team with a standard set of pursuits. targeting the narratives of ladies dwelling in a predominantly Muslim colony in South Delhi, this e-book makes an attempt to illustrate the complexity in their lives and the a number of degrees of lack of confidence they face. not like different experiences on Indian Muslims that concentrate on Islam as a defining issue, this publication highlights the ways that non secular identification intersects with different identities together with class/status, nearby association and gender.


The writer additionally sheds gentle at the influence of such occasions because the Babri Masjid demolition in 1992 and the following riots, the Gujarat communal carnage in 2002, and the anti-Sikh violence in New Delhi in 1984, in addition to the increase of Hindutva, and transforming into Islamophobia skilled around the globe within the post-9/11 interval — at the articulation of identities on the neighborhood point and extending religion-based spatial segregation in Indian towns. The examine highlights how those incidents mix in several how one can raise the feel of marginalisation skilled by means of Muslims on the point of the locality.



Understanding the necessity to glance past preconceived non secular different types, this ebook will function crucial examining for these attracted to sociology, anthropology, gender, spiritual and concrete stories, in addition to policymakers and corporations excited about concerns concerning non secular minorities in India.

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