Shiv Sena Women

Download or read book Shiv Sena Women written by Atreyee Sen and published by C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS. This book was released on 2007 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This remarkable 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 1990s and into the present. The Sena women's front has been instrumental in creating and sustaining communal violence, directed primarily against their Muslim neighbours. The author presents the Sena women's own rationale for organising 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.