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100			_aAtreyee Sen
245			_aShiv Sena women : violence and communalism in a Bombay slum
260			_aBloomington _bIndiana university press _c2007
300			_a220 p.
520			_aThis 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.
650			_aIndia -Mumbai
650			_apolitical vioence
650			_aShiv sena
650			_aPoor children--Social conditions
650			_aPoor women--Social conditions
650			_apoor women
650			_ahindu women
650			_aPoor women--Political activity
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