Forging Identities: Gender, Communities, and the State in India

by Zoya Hasan

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, in order to examine how th

288 pages, Hardcover

First published September 20, 1994