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100			_aSultana, Parvin _954301
245			_aIdentity, Citizenship, and the Gender Question: Locating Muslim Women of Assam
260			_aEconomic and Political Weekly
300			_a60(22), May 31, 25: p.32-37
520			_aMuslim 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
650			_acitizenship, religion, muslim women in India, muslim women in assam, CAA & NRC _954302
773			_0Economic and Political Weekly
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