Confronting saffron demography : religion, fertility, and women's status in India /

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rawing 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 f...

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Main Author: Jeffery, Patricia
Other Authors: Jeffery, Roger
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Gurgaon : Three Essays Collective, 2006.
Subjects:
Muslims > India > Population.
Muslim women > India > Social conditions.
India > Population.
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505 |a 1.Saffron Demography and the Common Wisdom 2.‘We Five, Our Twenty-Five’: Myths of Population Out of Control in Contemporary India 3.A Uniform Customary Code? Marital Breakdown and .Women’s Economic Entitlements 4.Engendering Communalism: Everyday and Institutional 5.Aspects of Gender and Community  
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