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This report is for public use and hope that this effort will help many who are engaged in the process of empowerment of the marginalised and excluded Muslims in India. This study will contribute to an ongoing discussion, deliberation and action among people who are interested in the betterment of Muslim community like many other marginalised and deprived communities in India. The study was a collective effort 'by the people' with the people and for the people', ...
Women suffer discrimination in every community and country they belong. Same is with Muslim women who have been affected by the social, economic and political issues confronting different communities in India, and by those facing Indian women as a whole. Muslim women are less assertive at present and the reason lies in lack of proper awareness and a feeling of helplessness among them. This not only keeps them backward, suppressed and incapable of making their ...
This book is about the myth or reality of Madrasa and terrorism. Events in the past few years, like destruction of the Babri Masjid and the resulting communal riots in large parts of the country as well as the 9/11 attacks on the WTC and the Pentagon have initiated an open-ended war on terrorism on a global scale. At the same time, the world politics is being reconfigured along cultural lines with the new patterns of conflicts. In India during the BJP led ...
Call for professionalism in Non Government Sector increased the gap between development organizations and the Poor. The funding criteria of donors have changed over years and professionalism overtook the initial passion of compassion. Principles of sustainability and Cost recovery stamped working with the very poor as very risky and draw a line between development organizations like CHAI with passion of compassion in spite of this development in development ...
This second edition of a training manual tries to explore the various aspects of laws related to women and the rights provided to women. It also examines the various forms and modes of violation that go on unabated. This manual focuses upon the numerous disadvantageous positions that women are subjected to. Though women constitute half of the population, they have for ages been victims of violence, exploitation and discrimination. The legal provisions made ...
How do we resist the status quo and work for the transformation of the social system? The country is faced with two major challenges-globalization of the economy and cultural fascism. Both are oppressive ideologies. The centralized, consumerist, market-oriented, capital driven model of development while has proved beneficial to a few transnationals and multinationals, has been catastrophic for the poor. The need is to replace it with a participative and community ...
This study traces historically the debate on uniform Civil Code and explores the complicated relationship between community, patriarchy, the state and gender justice. It examines and questions the attempt to locate Indian women as a homogeneous category and the community as a monolithic entity. Further, while emphasizing the need for Uniform Civil Code, the monograph argues that there cannot be any top heavy uniform prescription. Instead the code should be framed ...