Samina Nazir’s new collection, Kallo, marries humour, wit and a quiet sensitivity in its narration of women’s lives in South Asia. The book comprises six short stories and two plays, and each story is named for its female protagonist. The short stories, ranging from the titular ‘Kallo’, to ‘Rajjo’ and ‘Baji’, capture the hopes, desires and struggles of ordinary women, while also touching on the refraction of gendered experience by caste and class.
Housing a diverse set of women characters, the book’s strength lies in combining Nazir’s feminist sensibility with an intimate, granular depiction of Deccani culture, as the reader is transported to the sounds, sights and smells of Hyderabad across the border, the cadences of its distinct Urdu dialect dominating the page. By centring women’s voices and the domestic space, and entrenching her narration in a pan-South Asian imaginary, Nazir’s book is homage to the work of the Subcontinent’s progressive feminist pion
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Aligarh and Women’s education: a brief overview | Ishrat Mushtaq and Sajad Hassan Khan
Saturday 9 January 2021
by Ishrat Mushtaq and Sajad Hassan Khan
Women’s education in nineteenth-century India was no easy task. In the case of Muslim women, the task was even more difficult due to their triply marginal identity: as colonial subjects, as women, and as Muslims. Not only did the custom of
purdah added to their seclusion from the social and cultural changes, their men hated everything about the western cultural influence (being displaced as rulers by the British). As a result, the middle class (the initiators of reform) was to develop late among the Indian Muslims than their Hindu counterparts. Nevertheless, by the late nineteenth century, a middle-class among the Indian Muslims was fledging. For this, no institution of the nineteenth-century can be given more commendation than Aligarh Muslim University.