Feminism in India “Together the essays in Feminism in India testify to the fact that a vigorous if uneven women’s movement has been in existence for several decades – including interventions by mass organizations, state sponsored initiatives as well as ‘autonomous’ groups and that it is imperative to understand that variety of conceptual responses alongside this activism…Given the paucity of such compilations, which provide easy access of reference material to students and researchers, this collection makes an important contribution and the [Issues in Contemporary Indian Feminism series] promises to provide some useful monographs that facilitate a more textured understanding of feminism in India.” —Asian Journal of Feminist Studies; 2004 “Concerned centrally with the relevance of feminism as a method in the Indian context, the volume foregrounds its highly emotive reception both as a concept and as a politics…The perception that feminist theorising has been the preserve of the west has virtually relegated Indian literature to the domain of the empirical. [The Editor] rests her case in this collection on the impossibility of separating western ideas from Indian material in the cumulative way in which feminist theory has informed, evolved in and through Indian debates.” —Economic and Political Weekly; June 2004               Gender & Caste South Asian Masculinities: Context of Change, Sites of Continuity Shifting Body Politics: Gender, Nation, State in Pakistan Killing Days: Prison Memoirs No Woman’s Land: Women from Pakistan, India & Bangladesh Write on the Partition of India