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, with specific characteristics deriving from Islam. Instead, it locates the community within the social, economic, and political developments that have taken place in the subcontinent, pre- and post-Independence, in order to examine how exactly the delineation of minority identity takes place.The implications of this process for women are quite clear: social...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813323339
• ISBN13: 9780813323336
• Release Date: September 1994
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 6.0" x 9.0"