Communalism and Women's Writing in Independent India
H., Nikhila
The 1990s witnessed fervent discussion by scholars, writers and activists among others, of 'the rise of Hindutva', 'the communalization of Indian society and polity' and the putative links of these processes with the 'communalism' that marked the politics of India under colonial rule, particularly the kind that resulted in the formation of two nation-states, India and Pakistan, widely known as 'Partition'. These discussions, by and large, seem...