The Muslims of British India. By P. Hardy. Cambridge: University Press, 1972. Cambridge South Asia Series 13. ix, 306 pp. Maps, Glossary, Bibliography.

1974 ◽  
Vol 33 (3) ◽  
pp. 498-500
Author(s):  
N. Gerald Barrier
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
British India ◽  
Cambridge University

Bina Agarwal. A Field of One's Own: Gender and Land Rights in South Asia. Cambridge, UKlNew Delhi: Cambridge University Press, 1994. 572pp.Hardbound.

1996 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasmeen Mohiuddin
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
Gender Gap ◽  
Political Power ◽  
Economic Status ◽  
Land Rights ◽  
Economic Factor ◽  
Land Ownership ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
Social Prestige ◽  
Innovative Solutions

A Field of One's Own is a pioneering study on gender and property in South Asia. It argues that the gender gap in 'effective' ownership of property is the 'single most important' economic factor in explaining gender inequities in South Asia, where land ownership is not only a symbol of economic status but also of social prestige and political power. The author explores the complex, and often unrecognised, reasons for this gender gap and suggests some innovative solutions.

Diversities and Minorities

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yulia Egorova
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
British India ◽  
History Of

The chapter provides an outline of the history of Jews and Muslims in South Asia focusing on the multiplicity of definitions of both groups. While highlighting the diversity of Indian Jews and Indian Muslims, it discusses how in the British period the colonial authorities constructed and sedimented the boundaries both around and within the two groups, depicting them simultaneously as foreign to the subcontinent in ways that would minoritize them in British India and, subsequently, in independent India, and as indigenous, in ways that proved to be detrimental to their position vis-à-vis the Hindu majority in the case of Indian Muslims and vis-à-vis overseas Jewish organizations in the case of Indian Jews.

Transplanting Ties

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
John R. Bowen
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
Economic Cooperation ◽  
Religious Community ◽  
British India ◽  
Physical Movement ◽  
Muslim Population ◽  
Chain Migration ◽  
The World ◽  
New Residents ◽  
Historical Accident

This chapter traces the physical movement of Muslims to Britain. Muslims came to Britain mainly—though not only—from South Asia, and they settled in certain cities and neighborhoods. Although Muslims living in Britain today trace their origins to many parts of the world, the majority have roots in former British India, and mainly in today's Pakistan and Bangladesh. Furthermore, within those two countries, a small number of districts have contributed in strikingly disproportionate numbers to the Muslim population of Britain. The concentrations began with historical accident but, once in place, reproduced themselves through practices of “chain migration,” whereby one generation of immigrants pulled another after it. The results are concentrations of closely related people in certain British neighborhoods. Many of these new residents of Britain have sought to maintain their ties to the homeland through marriage and through forms of economic cooperation. These practices reinforce ties of shared ethnic and religious community within certain British neighborhoods.

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