The feminization of violence in Bombay: Women in the politics of the Shiv Sena

Asian Survey

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 1996, Pages 1213-1224

  Banerjee, Sikata ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

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EID: 0442317007     PISSN: 00044687     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/as.1996.36.12.01p0191z     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Author's interview with Pramod Navalkar, Bombay, April 20, 1993. Notice how the Shiv Sena leader makes an explicit dichotomy between "us" (Hindu) and "them" (Muslim). The bangles observation implies that Hindu men have become weak like women and have failed to protect Hindu lives.
2. "Giving the Riots a. Human Face." Telegraph, April 5, 1993.
3. See Madhu Kishwar, "Religion at the Service of Nationalism: An Analysis of Sangh Parivar Politics," Manushi, May-June 1993; Tanika Sarkar, "Women's Agency Within Authoritarian Communalism: The Rashtrasevika Samiti and Ramjanambhoomi," in Cyan Pandey, ed., Hindus and Others: The Question of Identity in India Today (New Delhi: Viking Press, 1993).
4. See Madhu Kishwar, "Religion at the Service of Nationalism: An Analysis of Sangh Parivar Politics," Manushi, May-June 1993; Tanika Sarkar, "Women's Agency Within Authoritarian Communalism: The Rashtrasevika Samiti and Ramjanambhoomi," in Cyan Pandey, ed., Hindus and Others: The Question of Identity in India Today (New Delhi: Viking Press, 1993).
5. Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities (London: Verson. 1991), p. 10.
6. The association with Shiva is a fairly recent development. "Shiv," until recently, referred to Shivaji but with the Shiv Sena's switch from a Maharashtrian regional platform to a more panHindu political message, the Sena leaders have recently incorporated an association with Lord Shiva.
7. Atul Kohli, Democracy and Discontent: India's Growing Crisis of Governability (New Delhi: Cambridge University Press, 1991), pp. 13-21.
8. This observation was made again and again in the author's interviews with journalists, inhabitants of the slums, and even lower level Congress politicians.
9. Danyl D'Monte, "A Grisly Second Round," in When Bombay Burned, Dileep Padgaonkar, ed. (Bombay: UBS Publishing, 1993), p. 131.
10. Two excellent analyses of this strike are by Rajni Bakshi, A Long Haul (Bombay: Build Documentation Center, 1986), and H. van Wersch, Bombay Textile Strike 1982-83 (Bombay. Oxford University Press, 1992).
11. Two excellent analyses of this strike are by Rajni Bakshi, A Long Haul (Bombay: Build Documentation Center, 1986), and H. van Wersch, Bombay Textile Strike 1982-83 (Bombay. Oxford University Press, 1992).
12. This means that the percentage of workers is equal to or greater than the percentage of Maharashuians in the general population of Bombay. Mary Katzenstein, Ethnicity and Equality: The Shiv Sena and Preferential Policies in Bombay (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1979). p. 68.
13. Author's interview with Madhusree Datta, Bombay, April 21, 1994.
14. Tanika Sarkar, "Women's Agency within Authoritarian Communalism," in Pandey, Hindus and Others, p. 43.
15. Madhusree Datta interview.
16. Author's interview with Shenaz Shaikh, Bombay, March 21, 1993.
17. Madhusree Datta interview.