Beyond the Veil
Muslim Women in South Asia

Edited by: Sanjukta Das, Monalisa Jha

Beyond the Veil: Muslim Women in South Asia presents a collection of essays that cover on-the-ground conditions in various South Asian nations today as well as their recent history. It reevaluates renowned women achievers, reformers and revolutionaries, and retrieves from obscurity unsung, unknown women whose daily fights need to be understood.

The contributors are academics, activists, freedom fighters, fieldworkers and committee chairs from India and Bangladesh. This rich spectrum is reflected in the scope of the essays dealing with education, employment, politics and social practices. It maps a story of Muslim women's oppressions and resistances, marginalizations and participations and effects important shifts in perspectives.

This record of the lives of Muslim women, within and beyond the veil, is an important contribution to the fields of sociology, history, economics, women's studies, literature and culture.