TY  - BOOK
AU  - Atreyee Sen
TI  - Shiv Sena women : violence and communalism in a Bombay slum
SN  - 9780253219411
U1  - 324.254792 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Bloomington
PB  - Indiana university press
KW  - India -Mumbai
KW  - political vioence
KW  - Shiv sena
KW  - Poor children--Social conditions
KW  - Poor women--Social conditions
KW  - poor women
KW  - hindu women
KW  - Poor women--Political activity
N2  - This engaging book, based on Atreyee Sen's immersion into the low-income, working-class slums of Bombay, tells the story of the women and children of the Shiv Sena, one of the most radical and violent of the Hindu nationalist parties that dominated Indian politics throughout the 90s and into the present. The Sena women's front has been instrumental in creating and sustaining communal violence, directed primarily against their Muslim neighbors. The author presents the Sena women's own rationale for organizing themselves along paramilitary lines, as poor women and children have used violence and "gang-ism" to create a distinctive social identity, networks of material support, and protection from male violence in the explosive environment of the slums. Sen's moving account foregrounds the ethical dilemmas that surrounded her "covert" research and writing of the book, and she considers wider questions involving women, violence, and religious fundamentalism
ER  -