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"The essays in this volume map the concerns of gender onto the terrain of nation, finding significant connection, disjunctions and tensions between them. The authors argue that for any cultural analysis to be performed in the context of the decolonised nation-space, gender must take centrestage. The essays explore gender as a point of crisis in the cultural, social and political space of the nation. They attribute the existence of these crises to conflicts ...
The Scandal of the State is a pathbreaking examination of the relationship between the postcolonial democratic Indian nation-state and Indian women’s actual needs and lives. Rajeswari Sunder Rajan combines feminist theory and postcolonial studies to show how the state is central to understanding women’s identities, and how, reciprocally, women and women's issues affect the state’s role and function. She argues that, for Indian women, law and citizenship ...
While secularism has been integral to India's democracy for more than fifty years, its uses and limits are being debated anew. Signs of a crisis in the relations between state, society, and religion include the violence against Muslims in Gujarat and the precarious situation of India's minorities more generally; personal laws that vary by religious community; the affiliation of political parties with fundamentalist religious organizations; and the ...