Identity, Citizenship, and the Gender Question: Locating Muslim Women of Assam
By: Sultana, Parvin
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BookPublisher: Economic and Political Weekly Description: 60(22), May 31, 25: p.32-37.Subject(s): citizenship, religion, muslim women in India, muslim women in assam, CAA & NRCSummary: Muslim women in India continue to be studied as passive subjects and a minority within a minority. The focus on these women is dominated by the social aspect of their lives and revolves around purdah and their oppression under an “oppressive” personal law. The state also colludes in maintaining this image as it conveniently helps in forwarding its own agenda of “disciplining” the Muslim man. Taking a closer look at the condition of Muslim women in Assam, the only state which has already gone through the process of updating the National Register of Citizens, this article will try to locate how they are often relegated to the private sphere in the politico-legal discourse of citizenship and thus their position within their own communities have impacted their identity as a civic citizen. - Reproduced
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Muslim women in India continue to be studied as passive subjects and a minority within a minority. The focus on these women is dominated by the social aspect of their lives and revolves around purdah and their oppression under an “oppressive” personal law. The state also colludes in maintaining this image as it conveniently helps in forwarding its own agenda of “disciplining” the Muslim man. Taking a closer look at the condition of Muslim women in Assam, the only state which has already gone through the process of updating the National Register of Citizens, this article will try to locate how they are often relegated to the private sphere in the politico-legal discourse of citizenship and thus their position within their own communities have impacted their identity as a civic citizen. - Reproduced
https://www.epw.in/journal/2025/22/perspectives/identity-citizenship-and-gender-question.html
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