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Husain, Intizar; Pritchett, Frances W.

doi:10.1353/man.2007.0038

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“…After colonial India's partition, violence that marked the territorial uncertainty between India and Pakistan was extensively explored in Partition literature (Husain 2013; Hyder 1998). Saadat Hasan Manto wrote in Urdu, a language considered incompatible with the birth of postcolonial India and entrenched in ambivalence around ideas of nationalism and belonging (Mufti 2000).…”

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Between Migration and Exile: Muslim Women's Geographies of Citizenship in India

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2023

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Against the backdrop of India's 2019 Islamophobic Citizenship Amendment Act, this article is based on ethnographic research with young Muslim women from Aligarh which aimed to show that their narratives of displacement and exclusion from citizenship inspired their search for belonging and enabled them to reinscribe spaces with their own, marginalised, but nonetheless real, projects of belonging. From exclusion and debasement springs new imagination of belonging: this is my finding. Drawing on intersectional feminist writings, postcolonial and critical Muslim studies, I propose that Muslim women's geographies become forms of contestation of the national project producing non‐citizens. In this context, I trace the interconnections between physical and spiritual geographies to show us how Muslim women continue to carve space for themselves.

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Between Migration and Exile: Muslim Women's Geographies of Citizenship in India

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