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084			_aY15:(Q7) R5
100			_aAlam, Asiya _9668916
245			_aWomen, Islam and familial intimacy in colonial South Asia
260			_aNew Delhi : _bManohar, _c2025.
300			_axl, 355p.
520			_aWomen, Islam and Familial Intimacy in Colonial South Asia highlights the rich tradition of protest and defiance among the Muslim women of colonial India. Bringing together a range of archival material including novels, pamphlets, commentaries and journalistic essays, it narrates a history of Muslim feminism conversing with, and confronting the dominant and influential narratives of didactic social reform. The book reveals how discussion about marriage and family evoked claims of women’s freedom and rights in a highly charged literary and cultural landscape where lesser-known female intellectuals jostled for public space alongside well-known male social reformers. Definitions of Islamic ethics remained central to these debates, and the book illustrates how claims of social obligation, religious duty and freedom balanced and negotiated each other in a period of nationalism and reform. By doing so, it also illuminates a story of Muslim politics that goes beyond the well-established accounts of Muslim separatism and the Pakistan movement.
650			_aFeminism--History-- 20th century-- South Asia _9811076
650			_aMarriage--History--19th century--South Asia--20th century _9811077
650			_aMuslim women--Social conditions--19th century--South Asia--20th century _9811078
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