Confronting Saffron Demography
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Author : Patricia Jeffery, Roger Jeffery
8188789380 | HB | pp. 172 | 2006 | Three Essays
Confronting Saffron Demography challenges Hindutva myths about Muslims in India. These essays take a critical look at negative stereotypes surrounding Muslims, their minority position and marginalisation in society.
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Drawing on over 20 years of field-level research in rural Uttar Pradesh, these essays challenge Hindutva myths about Muslims in India. Communalist discourses often portray Muslims as ‘backward’ because of purdah, polygamy, illiteracy, high fertility and low women’s status. The authors highlight the falsity and perniciousness of such negative stereotypes. Pointing to the danger of reifying and rigidifying these contrasts between Hindus and Muslims, they draw out parallels and similarities between them, for example in domestic and gender politics, to argue that Muslim women are not especially oppressed. Moreover, those differences that remain are compounded and exaggerated by Muslims’ minority position in India and their marginalisation, for example in relation to health services and to education. These revised and up-dated essays address these general issues through the examples of fertility, women’s status, and the obstacles to movements that might redress these problems.
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| Authors: | Patricia Jeffery, Roger Jeffery |
|---|---|
| ISBN: | 8188789380 |
| Publisher: | Three Essays |
| Binding: | Hardback |
| Pages: | 172 |
| Year of Publication: | 2006 |
| Edition: | First |
| Condition: | New |
| Country of Origin: | India |
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