Contesting Nation: Gendered Violence in South Asia
Notes on the Postcolonial Present
Ranked #21 in Pakistan History
An innovative collection of essays on the turmoil spreading across South Asia, Contesting Nation sheds light on how violence—in wars of direct and indirect conquest—marks the present. Featuring contributions by distinguished South Asian women scholars, the book offers inspired, gendered, and contested histories of the present, exploring nation-making and its intersections with projects of militarization and cultural assertion, modernization, and globalization.
The contributors to this volume consider such turbulent events as the Gujarat carnage of 2002, post-9/11... more
The contributors to this volume consider such turbulent events as the Gujarat carnage of 2002, post-9/11... more
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