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EDUCATING
MUSLIM GIRLS: A COMPARISON OF FIVE
INDIAN CITIES
Zoya Hasan &
Ritu Menon
Rs 300 Hb 2005
81-88965-16-2
(All rights available.)
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This
examination of the several considerations and factors
that influence the schooling of Muslim girls is
the first of its kind, based on first-hand information
from interviews, documents and reports, and empirical
studies. It argues that state policies and initiatives
on education, regional location, social and economic
compulsions, as well as changing community perceptions
are critical to our understanding of why the educational
attainment of Muslim girls continues to remain below
average. The authors draw on their Survey findings
on girls’ education, based on data collected
across the country, to present a macro consideration
of the complex factors that influence Muslim girls’
schooling. They can compare the experiences of five
distinct locations Delhi, Aligarh, Kolkata, Hyderabad
and Calicut and attempts a situational, micro analysis
of these factors, identifying some critical elements
that determine their educational status. By doing
so they succeed in dispelling prevalent misperceptions
regarding 'community conservatism' and resistance
to change and advocate more pro-active affirmative
action by the state. |
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ZOYA
HASAN
is Professor
at the Centre for Political Studies, Jawaharlal
Nehru University, New Delhi. She has published
widely in academic journals and periodicals
and is the author of Dominance
& Mobilisation: Rural Politics in Western
Uttar Pradesh
(1989) and Quest
for Power: Oppositional Movements and Post
Congress Politics in Uttar Pradesh
(1998). With Ritu Menon she is co-author of
Unequality
Citizens: A Study of Muslim Women in India
(2004), and
co-editor with her of
in a Minority: Essays on Muslim Women in India
(2005). |
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RITU
MENON
is a publisher
and independent scholar. She is co-author
of Borders
and Boundaries: Women in India’s Partition,
and of Unequal
Citizens: A Study of Muslim Women in India;
and editor, No
Woman’s Land: Women from Pakistan, India
and Bangladesh
Write on the Partition of India.
She has also edited several anthologies of
stories by Indian women. |
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