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How Shaheen Bagh offers a model for the future

31 January 2021
Perhaps the most enduring and intractable aspect of the Shaheen Bagh protest for the Hindu Right is the salience of Muslim women—what the academic Zoya Hasan, in Seema Mustafa’s volume, describes as “the emergence of Muslim women as the strongest voices against the prospect of a Hindu Rashtra.”
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Perhaps the most enduring and intractable aspect of the Shaheen Bagh protest for the Hindu Right is the salience of Muslim women—what the academic Zoya Hasan, in Seema Mustafa’s volume, describes as “the emergence of Muslim women as the strongest voices against the prospect of a Hindu Rashtra.”
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Reflecting on the present ascendance of Hindu nationalism in Emergency Chronicles: Indira Gandhi and Democracy’s Turning Point, the historian Gyan Prakash wrote:

Vaibhav Vats is an independent writer and journalist. His work has appeared in the New York Times and Al Jazeera, among other publications. He is working on a book on Hindu nationalism and the making of India’s Second Republic. 

Keywords: Shaheen Bagh Muslims in India Muslims Anti-CAA Protests protest
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