Shaheen Bagh and the Idea of India - (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Description On 15 December 2019, police in riot gear stormed Delhi's Jamia Millia Islamia</p><p>University and attacked unarmed students protesting against the Citizenship</p><p>(Amendment) Act (CAA), which makes religion the basis of Indian citizenship. In</p><p>neighbouring Shaheen Bagh, a few women-mothers, other relatives and friends of</p><p>the students-came out into the streets in outrage and anguish. They sat on a main</p><p>road demanding repeal of the CAA which, twinned with the proposed National</p><p>Register of Citizens (NRC), could make Indian Muslims aliens in their own country.</p><p>Soon, similar protests broke out across the country in a display of civil resistance of</p><p>a kind never seen in Independent India.</p><p>Shaheen Bagh and the Idea of India examines how the sit-in by a small group of Muslim</p><p>women-many of whom have stepped out of their homes alone for the first time-</p><p>has united crores of Indian citizens of different faiths and ideologies in a fight to save</p><p>the principles of equality and secularism enshrined in our Constitution. It also throws</p><p>up many important questions: Can Shaheen Bagh-and the many other 'Shaheen</p><p>Baghs' it has inspired-reverse the damage that has been done to our Constitutional</p><p>democracy in recent years? What has sustained this non-violent movement despite</p><p>vilification and persecution by the central and state governments and their police?</p><p>Will it survive the aftermath of the brutal communal violence, provoked in the main</p><p>by members of the ruling party, that devastated northeast Delhi in February 2020?</p><p>What form will the movement take after the Shaheen Bagh protest site was cleared</p><p>by the police on 24 March 2020 following the COVID-19 outbreak? Will it continue</p><p>to build new and transformative solidarities in our society?</p><p>This timely and necessary anthology comprises interviews with some of the brave</p><p>women at the core of the protests; ground reports by journalists and social activists</p><p>like Seemi Pasha, Enakshi Ganguly, Nazes Afroz and Mustafa Quraishi; and essays by</p><p>leading thinkers and writers, including Nayantara Sahgal, Harsh Mander, Subhashini</p><p>Ali, Nandita Haksar, Apoorvanand and Zoya Hasan. It is a book that must be read by</p><p>everyone who cares about India as a liberal democracy.</p>
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