TY  - JOUR
TI  - Feminists against fascism: the Indian female Muslim student protest in India
KW  - Citizenship in India; anti-CAA protests; Muslim women; public pedagogy; Hindutva
UR  - https://doi.org/10.3390/educsci11120793
AV  - public
JF  - Education Sciences
N1  - This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited
ID  - discovery10144135
VL  - 11
PB  - MDPI AG
Y1  - 2021/12//
A1  - Kadiwal, Laila
N2  - This article explores contestations around ideas of India, citizenship, and nation from the perspective of Indian Muslim female university students in Delhi. In December 2019, the Hindu majoritarian government introduced new citizenship legislation. It caused widespread distress over its adverse implications for Muslims and a large section of socio-economically deprived populations. In response, millions of people, mainly from Dalit, Adivasi, and Bahujan backgrounds, took to the streets to protest. Unprecedentedly, young Muslim female students and women emerged at the forefront of the significant public debate. This situation disrupted the mainstream perception of oppressed Muslim women lacking public voice and agency. Drawing on the narratives of the Indian Muslim female students who participated in these protests, this article highlights their conceptions of, and negotiations with, the idea of India. In doing so, this article reflects on the significance of critical feminist protest as a form of ?public pedagogy? for citizenship education as a powerful antidote to a supremacist, hypermasculine, and vigilante idea of India.
IS  - 12
ER  -