Shiv Sena Women: Violence and Communalism in a Bombay Slum

by Atreyee Sen

Book Overview

This engaging book, based on Atreyee Sen's immersion into the low-income, working-class slums of Bombay, tells the story of the women and children of the Shiv Sena, one of the most radical and violent of the Hindu nationalist parties that dominated Indian politics throughout the 90s and into the present. The Sena women's front has been instrumental in creating and sustaining communal violence, directed primarily against their Muslim neighbors. The...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253349621
• ISBN13: 9780253349620
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.5"