Rohit De, A People’s Constitution: The Everyday Life of Law in the Indian Republic. Delhi, India: Princeton: Princeton University Press. 2018. 312 pages. Kindle edition, ₹423. Gautam Bhatia, The Transformative Constitution: A Radical Biography in Nine Acts. Noida, Uttar Pradesh: HarperCollins Publishers. 2019. 544 pages. ₹699.

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Hem Borker, Madrasas and the Making of Islamic Womanhood. New Delhi: Oxford University Press 2018, 326 pp., ₹1195, ISBN 9780199484225

The discipline of political science is concerned with differentials of power between groups. One of the starkest power differentials in society exists between men and women. Women are overwhelmingly represented in the category of unpaid workers, and noticeably absent in the category of property ownership, to give just one example. Is it enough for political science to add gender as one component to its other categories of caste and class, for instance, when it analyzes how power is structured in society? This article is a call for moving beyond this to examine the gendered nature of the concepts-of citizenship, productive work, social contract and the public and private-of political science.

Ghazala Jamil, Muslim Women Speak: Of Dreams and Shackles. New Delhi: Sage Yoda Press, 2018, 190 pp., ₹595, ISBN 9789352805006.