Contemporary Muslim Girlhoods in India: A Study of Social Justice, Identity and Agency in Assam

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of illustrations
Acknowledgement
1. Introduction
	1.1 Girls as ‘new’ idealised citizen subject and education
	1.2 Discursive displacements: Muslim women and girls in India
	1.3 Politics of identity and belonging in Assam
	1.4 Situating the research questions – theoretical and empirical contributions
	1.5 Contextualising the ‘field’: Nagaon
	1.6 ‘Feminist’ research methods: sampling and data collection
	1.7 Structure of the book
	Notes
2. Social justice, politics of authorisation, and agency: theoretical conundrums in the study of contemporary Muslim girlhoods
	2.1 Sociocultural vs economic disadvantages
	2.2 Muslim women’s gender rights vs minority rights of the Muslim community
	2.3 Multiple axes of power– class, gender, ethnicity, and religion
	2.4 Agency vs victimhood
	2.5 Conclusion: breaking the impasse
3. Framing ‘difference’: Muslim girls and educational policy regime in India
	3.1 The policy framework: educational and cultural rights of gendered minorities
	3.2 Universal education policies
	3.3 Minorities and educational equality: the case of pre- and post-matric scholarships for students from minority communities
	3.4 Conclusion: education for Muslims as ‘Muslim’ education
	Notes
4. Teachers’ narrative: framing ‘difference’ as pathological
	4.1 Appearance as ‘pathological’
	4.2 Material deficit as ‘cultural’ deficit
	4.3 Lacking in merit
	4.4 Linguistic difference
	4.5 Class, ethnicised and gendered ‘difference’ of Muslim girls: everyday pathologies
	Notes
5. Good girls and good families: symbolic capital and cultural authorisation
	5.1 Negotiating the materiality of poverty ‘respectably’
	5.2 Prioritisation of gendered discipline
	5.3 Appropriate aspiration: merger of career aspirations with marital prospects
	5.4 Conclusion: arbitrating cultural authorisation and acquiring symbolic capital
	Notes
6. Reflexive selves: Muslim girls’ (re)constructions of ‘self ’
	6.1 The ‘good (Indian) Muslim’ self
	6.2 Proud ‘Miyah’ self
	6.3 Decently modern self
	6.4 The aspirational victim self
	6.5 Conclusion: (re)constructing ‘self’, bidding for cultural authorisations
	Notes
7. Conclusion: from narratives ‘about’ Muslim girls to Muslim girls’ narratives of ‘self ’
	7.1 The politics of Muslim girlhoods: beyond identity
	7.2 Theorising Muslim girlhoods
	7.3 Authorisation of pathological subjectivity
	7.4 Bids for cultural authorisation: about ‘good families’ and ‘good girlhoods’
	7.5 Reflexive selfhoods
	7.6 Limitations of the current research and future research outlook
Bibliography
Index