Zubaan: 90 books
by Chayanika Shah, Raj Merchant, Shals Mahajan and Smriti Nevatia
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
The constructed “naturalness” of a world made up of two sexes, two genders, and heterosexual desire as the only legitimate desire has been continuously questioned and challenged by those marginalised by these norms. This forces us to ask some important questions: How is gender really understood...
The History of Doing
An Illustrated Account of Movements for Women’s Rights and Feminism in India, 1800-1990
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2014
A thematic history of the women’s movement in India both before and after independence, this book covers the period from the nineteenth century to the present day. It looks at how women’ s issues were raised, initially by men and as part of the movements for social reform, and then with the involvement...
Rag Doll After My Heart, A
A Poetic Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2015
First published in Marathi in 1966, this unique novella in free verse tells an age-old story: that of a woman’s deep desire to be a mother. Setting out life as a game in which the moves are predetermined, and yet where rules exist only to be twisted, perhaps negotiated, sometimes even changed, Anuradha...
X Does Not Mark My Spot
Voices from the South Asian Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2015
A lively collection of stories, essays, and poems by writers of South Asian descent living in North America.‘Call Me Confused, Please’ requests one of the stories in this insightful and engaging collection from women of South Asian origin living in the United States and Canada. ‘Made in the USA?’...
by Muhammad Hadi Ruswa
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Published in March of 1899, Muhammad Hadi Ruswa’s famous novel, Umrao Jaan Ada created a sensation when it came out, with its candid account of the life of Umrao Jaan, a semi-fictional, possibly real, Lucknow courtesan. Subsequent translations and films based on the book have further extended its fame....
Writing Caste/Writing Gender
Narrating Dalit Women's Testimonies
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
The women tell it like it is... So riveting is the narration that it is difficult to put down the book until their stories are finished. For a non-fiction academic work this is no small feat.’ — The Hindu Sharmila Rege’s path breaking study of Dalit women’s writings and lives offers a powerful...
Passionate Life, A
Writings by and on Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay (1903-1988) was a remarkable woman of many passions and gifts. She played an important role in the struggle for Indian independence and was similarly a key figure in the international socialist feminist movement. She was India’s ambassador to Asia and Africa, an articulate...
Woman's Eye, Woman's Hand
Making Art and Architecture in Modern India
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
With independence, India experienced a dramatic social rupture but also a recuperation of political autonomy and a new sense of optimism that promised opportunities. The country became a crucible for experimentation in modern and utopian architecture with new buildings, cities and museums giving public...
Negotiating Adolescence in Rural Bangladesh
A Journey through School, Love and Marriage
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
The book interrogates the experience of being young and becoming adult in rural Bangladesh, in a context of profound processes of socio economic change. Throughout South Asia, new educational opportunities and an increase in the age at which girls and boys get married are opening new spaces for young...
Landscapes of Fear
Understanding Impunity in India
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2014
Drawing on the findings of a comparative research project, this volume tackles a set of intricate questions about the workings of impunity in India. How do victims of abuse and survivors of sexual violence end up being denied justice? What do those on the margins—those with the wrong sex, wrong identity...
Along the Red River
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Veteran journalist Sabita Goswami has written a unique, unusual and rare autobiography, documenting the extraordinary, single-handed fight of an ordinary woman in the heart of Assam, against family and social obstacles, and her attempt to establish herself emotionally and professionally. An unbiased...
by Easterine Kire
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
Kohima, 2007. A young man has been gunned down in cold blood—the latest casualty in the conflict that has scarred the landscape and brutalized the people of Nagaland. Easterine Kire’s novel traces the story of one man’s life, from 1937 to the present day. The small incidents of Mose’s childhood,...
Speaking Peace
Women’s Voices from Kashmir
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014
Kashmir has been, for some years, a key issue on the Indian political map. More than a decade of conflict has deeply affected people’s livelihoods and living environments, their health, their eating habits, their work and workplaces, their access to education. The impact of these things is felt most...
Conflicted Democracies and Gendered Violence
Internal Conflict and Social Upheaval in India
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2016
Conflicted Democracies and Gendered Violence elucidates the centrality of political and foundational violence in the governance of conflicted democracies in the postcolony, calling attention to the urgent need for transformation. Spectacular and quotidian gendered and sexualized violence by states and...