Shiv Sena Women ? Violence and Communalism in a Bombay Slum: Violence and Communalism in a Bombay Slum

Shiv Sena Women ? Violence and Communalism in a Bombay Slum

Violence and Communalism in a Bombay Slum
 
Publisher: MH ? Indiana University Press
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ISBN13:9780253219411
ISBN10:0253219418
Binding:Paperback
See also 9780253349620
No. of pages:224 pages
Size:216x140x15 mm
Weight:123 g
Language:English
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This engaging book, based on Atreyee Sen's immersion into the low-income, working-class slums of Bombay, tells the story of the women and children of the Shiv Sena, one of the most radical and violent of the Hindu nationalist parties that dominated Indian politics throughout the 90s and into the present. The Sena women's front has been instrumental in creating and sustaining communal violence, directed primarily against their Muslim neighbors. The author presents the Sena women's own rationale for organizing themselves along paramilitary lines, as poor women and children have used violence and "gang-ism" to create a distinctive social identity, networks of material support, and protection from male violence in the explosive environment of the slums. Sen's moving account foregrounds the ethical dilemmas that surrounded her "covert" research and writing of the book, and she considers wider questions involving women, violence, and religious fundamentalism.



"Shiv Sena Women is a riveting account of the Shiv Sena's `Mahila Aghadi' or women's front and their children in Bombay. Sen addresses urgent contemporary issues that are relevant not only to India, but to all political theory interested in the growing social support for fundamentalist movements." ?Kumkum Sangari, University of Wisconsin?Milwaukee