Ambiguity Machines and Other Stories
After the success of her collection The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet, Vandana Singh returns to the short story in Ambiguity Machines.


After the success of her collection The Woman Who Thought She Was a Planet, Vandana Singh returns to the short story in Ambiguity Machines.



A revolutionary take on the classic dystopian science fiction novel, Clone inaugurates a new kind of writing in India.



The Tamil text Nīlakeci, dated around the 5th century CE (debated), is an unusual literary creation.



The Sexual Violence and Impunity in South Asia research project (coordinated by Zubaan and supported by the International Development Research Centre) brings together, for the first time in the region, a vast body of knowledge on this important – yet silenced – subject.



In this new collection by well- known author Nighat Gandhi, the private worlds of women open themselves up to the reader.



The Sexual Violence and Impunity in South Asia research project (coordinated by Zubaan and supported by the International Development Research Centre) brings together, for the first time in the region, a vast body of knowledge on this important – yet silenced – subject.



This book examines the structures of governance as they impact women in five conflict zones in South Asia: Swat in Pakistan, the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh, the Northern Province in Sri Lanka, and Kashmir and Manipur in India.



From Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (1880-1932), the writer of the feminist utopian fantasy ‘Sultana’s Dream’, come these tales of gumptious wit, describing the twists and turns of India’s two-hundred-year relationship with the imperial British.



A grandmother’s tattoos, the advent of Christianity, stories woven into fabrics, a tradition of orality, the imposition of a ‘new’ language, a history of war and conflict: all this and much more informs the writers and artists in this book.



In this personal and passionate account, activist and researcher Sahba Husain documents her deeply engaged and empathetic involvement with the politicised terrain of Kashmir.



In the mid 1970s, at the peak of the women’s movement, feminist activism and research opened the door to questions that are still pressing today.



Manipur has a rich tradition of folk and oral narratives, as well as written texts dating from as early as in 8th Century AD.



Chandrabati, the first woman poet in Bangla, lived in the sixteenth century in Mymensingh district in present day Bangladesh.



As if being the new kids isn’t enough, Padma and Kannagi Shankar quickly find that New Dawn High School isn’t exactly a regular school.



A Foot in the Door is the culmination of research undertaken in the rural panchayats of Gujarat and Tamil Nadu, and brings the voices of Dalit women to the fore.



This work attempts to break new ground by posing questions about women’s activism within the Hindu right, a crucial issue that has barely been addressed.



This collection of essays brings together auto-ethnographic, critical and comparative reflections on doing feminisms in the academy in contemporary India and the UK.



In Kashmir’s frigid winter a woman leaves her door cracked open, waiting for the return of her only son.



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.



This book focuses on the economic activities of Khasi women, a matrilineal tribe in North-East India.
