Elusive Lives: Gender, Autobiography, and the Self in Muslim South Asia 9781503606524, 9781503604803, 9781503606517

Elusive Lives: Gender, Autobiography, and the Self in Muslim South Asia 9781503604803, 9781503606517, 9781503606524

Muslim South Asia is widely characterized as a culture that idealizes female anonymity: women's bodies are veiled a

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Speaking of the Self: Gender, Performance, and Autobiography in South Asia 0822359839, 9780822359838

Many consider the autobiography to be a Western genre that represents the self as fully autonomous. The contributors to

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Decolonising Gender in South Asia 0367703467, 9780367703462

Decolonising Gender in South Asia is the first full-length compilation of cutting-edge research on the challenging debat

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Islam and Muslim history in South Asia 9780195649673, 0195649672

This collection of essays by Francis Robinson, a scholar on Islam in South Asia, brings together the author's best-

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Gender and Governance: Perspectives from South Asia

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Writing Gender Writing Self: Memory, Memoir and Autobiography 9780367534493, 9781003081968

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Nationbuilding, Gender and War Crimes in South Asia 9780415565660, 9780203850015

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The World in Words: Travel Writing and the Global Imagination in Muslim South Asia 1009340751, 9781009340755

Based on over a decade of original archival research, this book shows how Urdu travel writing gave voice to a global ima

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Literary Sentiments in the Vernacular: Gender and Genre in Modern South Asia 103206725X, 9781032067254

This collection brings together nine essays, accompanied by nine short translations that expand the assumptions that hav

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The Muslim Luminaries: Leaders of Religious, Intellectual, and Political Revival in South Asia

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