Modi, Muslims, and media : voices from Narendra Modi's Gujarat

By: Madhu KishwarMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: New Delhi Manushi 2014Description: 399pISBN: 9788192935201 Subject(s): Muslims | Riots | India--Gujarat | India--Vadodara | Modī, Narendra, 1950 | Politics and government | HindutvaDDC classification: 320.95475 Summary: This book gives objective facts back their proper central place in our political life...The enormous amount of important research that went into this effort demands that all those who care about the well-being of India's people and healthy inter-community relations should read it carefully and weigh its conclusions fairly. Thus far, we have heard the voices of those who, in condemning Modi, claim to speak on behalf of gujrat muslims. The value of Kishwar's narrative is that she has let Muslims speak for themselves by quoting extensively from her video-recorded interviews with both rural and urban Muslims. An honest understanding of this phase of contemporary history is vital for the health of democracy and amicable inter-community relations in India. -Salim Khan, Script writer & columnist The manner in which the author has gone about talking to officials and people in detail, about the functioning of the Gujrat government under Modi; her visits to various parts of Gujrat to know about the conditionsprevailing in the state; her unbiased and masterly analyses of the material she gathered through her tireless work, makes this book almost a thesis. But unlike an academic thesis, the book makes absorbing reading; apart from being an irrefutable answer to the prejudiced critics of Modi, it is a page-turner too. _Cho Ramaswamy, Editor, Thuglak Madhu Purnima Kishwar is Senior Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Socities and Director Indic Studies Project at CSDS. She is the founder editor of Manushi- A Journal About Women and Society and founder president of Manushi Sangathan, an organisation committed to strengthening women's rights and democratic rights in India.
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This book gives objective facts back their proper central place in our political life...The enormous amount of important research that went into this effort demands that all those who care about the well-being of India's people and healthy inter-community relations should read it carefully and weigh its conclusions fairly.
Thus far, we have heard the voices of those who, in condemning Modi, claim to speak on behalf of gujrat muslims. The value of Kishwar's narrative is that she has let Muslims speak for themselves by quoting extensively from her video-recorded interviews with both rural and urban Muslims.
An honest understanding of this phase of contemporary history is vital for the health of democracy and amicable inter-community relations in India.
-Salim Khan, Script writer & columnist

The manner in which the author has gone about talking to officials and people in detail, about the functioning of the Gujrat government under Modi; her visits to various parts of Gujrat to know about the conditionsprevailing in the state; her unbiased and masterly analyses of the material she gathered through her tireless work, makes this book almost a thesis.
But unlike an academic thesis, the book makes absorbing reading; apart from being an irrefutable answer to the prejudiced critics of Modi, it is a page-turner too.
_Cho Ramaswamy, Editor, Thuglak
Madhu Purnima Kishwar is Senior Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Socities and Director Indic Studies Project at CSDS. She is the founder editor of Manushi- A Journal About Women and Society and founder president of Manushi Sangathan, an organisation committed to strengthening women's rights and democratic rights in India.

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