Dust of the Caravan
Dust of the Caravan is a selection of writings by Anis Kidwai sketching the personal and political journey of a Muslim woman through the first eight decades of the 20th century.
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Zubaan is an independent feminist publishing house. We publish books by and about gender and intersecting marginalities in South Asia.
Gender, Matriliny, and Entrepreneurship: The Khasis of North-East India
This book focuses on the economic activities of Khasi women, a matrilineal tribe in North-East India.
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Unruly Figures: Queerness, Sex Work, and the Politics of Sexuality in Kerala
The vibrant media landscape of Kerala, where kiosks overflow with magazines and colourful film posters line roadside walls, creates a sexually charged public sphere that has a long history of political protests.
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Inherited Memories: Third Generation Perspectives on Partition in the East
In 2015 the Goethe-Instituts in Kolkata (India) and Dhaka (Bangladesh) began a collaborative project entitled ‘Inherited Memories’.
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A Space Within the Struggle: Women’s Participation in People’s Movements
Popular representations of the women’s movement in India have created many misconceptions about its size and scope—from the assertion that the movement relates exclusively to urban, middle-class women, to the claim that there is no ‘mass women’s movement’ to speak of.
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Web of Deceit: Devadasi Reform in Colonial India
Dasigal Mosavalai (Web of Deceit) propagates the abolition of the devadasi system and seeks to reclaim youth from the temptations and immorality of the dasi.
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Feminist Terrains in Legal Domains: Interdisciplinary Essays on Women and Law in India
The essays in this volume explore the relatively new field of women and law from interdisciplinary, feminist perspectives and help to develop an understanding of feminist legal studies in India.
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When the Rolling Pins Hit the Streets: Women in the Anti-Price Rise Movement in Maharashtra
For three years in the early seventies women, young and old, homeworkers and factory workers, from different castes and classes, came together in Bombay to wage a sustained battle against rising prices.
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A Question of Silence: The Sexual Economies of Modern India
Has there been a “conspiracy of silence” regarding sexuality in India, be it within social movements or as a focus of scholarship? The essays in this volume use diverse perspectives to develop an understanding of the institutions, practices and forms of representation of sexual relations, and their boundaries of legitimacy.
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The Inheritance of Words: Writings from Arunachal Pradesh
A first of its kind, this book brings together the writings of women from Arunachal Pradesh in Northeast India.
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Intimate City
In this one-of-a-kind book, Manjima Bhattacharjya examines how globalization and technology have changed where and how sexual commerce is transacted.
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Gender Regimes and the Politics of Privacy: A Feminist Re-Reading of Puttaswamy vs. Union of India
In 2017 an all-male nine-judge bench of the Indian Supreme Court delivered the landmark Justice K.S. Puttaswamy & Ors v.
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Recognizing Connectedness: The Practice of Feminist Evaluation
The concept of programme evaluation, now more than half a century old, refers to the practice of professional assessment of a programme that is informed by evidence and guided by evaluative thinking to arrive at a judgement about value, merit, worth, significance and utility.
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Mobile Girls Koottam: Working Women Speak
In 2013 Madhumita Dutta, a doctoral student, went to do research in Kancheepuram district, Tamil Nadu.
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Homeward: Towards a Poetics of Space
In Homeward, Soibam Haripriya brings together writers, artists, poets and photographers to question presumptions of home, the idea of a homeland and, by extension, the nation.
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Searching for the Songbird
Kastura, ‘the Songbird’, has disappeared.
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A Small Step in a Long Journey: A Memoir by Akkai Padmashali
More than just an autobiography or memoir, this is a powerful and passionate account of one woman’s battle to claim her identity and place in society.
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Swimming in Our Oceans: A Memoir by Pragya Bhagat
Swimming In Our Oceans traverses the uncertainties and contradictions that shape who we are.
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The Violent Domestic: Law, its Practice, and Strategies of Survival
In 2005, after considerable campaigning by women’s groups, the Indian government brought in an important new law, the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act (PWDVA).
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The Stomach That Chewed Hunger and Other Stories
Tamil Literature in English Translation Series
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