Study of Girls’ Madrasa Education in India

This study is an attempt to look at the nuances of identity formation among Indian Muslim women; notions of identity and selfhood are a result of the intersections of caste, class, religion and gender, among other factors. This paper tries to understand the process of construction of identity of Muslim women through a study of girls’ madrasas. It also attempts to examine binaries such as modernity and tradition, the secular and the religious and, nationhood and religious minority, which deba...

Media and Religious Identity in Contemporary India

The hypothesis behind this paper is that we live in a “hyper-connected” world. Information , for most of us, lies , quite literally, at our fingertips. Television, the internet, newspapers and other media are within easy reach of most of the population regardless , it would seem, of class or even literacy or education. Under these circumstances it seemed a natural enough to question what role the media plays in perceptions of identity and pluralism.