Zubaan: 90 books
Her Space, Her Story
Exploring the Stepwells of Gujarat
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
A fascinating, multi-disciplinary exploration of water, wells and women’s spaces in Gujarat. Centuries ago, in the arid landscape of Gujarat, where water is scarce and rains scanty, stepwells sustained life and enabled crops to flourish. Women played a major role in the construction and patronage of...
Dalit Women Speak Out
Caste, Class and Gender Violence in India
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
“Women always face violence from men. Equality is only preached, but not put into practice. Dalit women face more violence every day, and they will continue to do so until society changes and accepts them as equals.” — Bharati from Andra Pradesh The right to equality regardless of gender and caste...
The Fear that Stalks
Gender-based Violence in Public Spaces
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
This book is an attempt to understand the causes, nature and consequences of gender- based violence in public spaces. It provides a framework that locates gender based violence within the politics and dynamics of public space, and helps us to understand the commonality between these diverse forms of...
Breaking the Bow
Speculative Fiction Inspired by the Ramayana
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Along time ago, a young prince, the heir to a great South-Asian kingdom, wielded Siva’s mighty bow and won the heart of a brave princess. The story of what happened next to the married couple—the Ramayana—told and re-told countless times over the centuries, begins where most stories end. The twenty-five...
Spectacles of Blood
A Study of Masculinity and Violence in Postcolonial Films
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
This book places itself at the nexus of current issues of violence, masculinity and power in the postcolonial context and its representation in its films in challenging, normalising, or contesting these major concerns of our times. The essays address the interplay of critical and theoretical insights...
by Essar Batool, Ifrah Butt, Samreena Mushtaq
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2016
On a cold February night in 1991, a group of soldiers and officers of the Indian Army pushed their way into two villages in Kashmir, seeking out militants assumed to be hiding there. They pulled the men out of their homes and subjected many to torture, and the women to rape. According to village accounts,...
Feminist Subversion and Complicity
Governmentalities and Gender Knowledge in South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2017
Feminist Subversion and Complicity interrogates a specific form of feminist practice, that which has involved engaging with state and international institutions to insert gender knowledge in their development interventions. Bringing together contributions from eight feminists located in very different...
by Easterine Kire
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
A lone hunter, Vilie, sets out to find the river of his dreams: to wrest from its sleeping waters a stone that will give him untold power. It is a dangerous quest, for not only must he overcome unquiet spirits, vengeful sorceresses and daemons of the forest, there are men armed with guns on his trail....
by Ila Arab Mehta
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2015
Fateema opened her diary and began writing: “Jihad as mentioned by the Prophet is a war against injustice and oppression. Islam means peace and surrender. Islam does not recommend killing innocent people. The Prophet released hundreds of slaves from bondage and sent themback to their native land.”There...
Nine Degrees of Justice
New Perspectives on Violence against Women in India
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
From an early focus on rape, dowry and sati, feminist struggles against violence on women in India have traversed a wide terrain to include issues that were invisible in the 1980s. In Nine Degrees of Justice, second- and third-generation feminists share their perspectives on violence against women through a series of thought-provoking essays.
Lady Driver
Stories of Women Behind the Wheel
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
In 2008, when the Azad Foundation, an NGO based in Delhi, began training women to become drivers of commercial and private vehicles, most people thought they were somewhat out of touch with reality. Poor, illiterate women, many of them from violent homes, some of them single mothers, others from families...
Kaifi and I
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2012
From the heart of a well-known family of Hyderabad to life in a single room with the barest of necessities, Shaukat Kaifi's memoir of her life with the renowned poet Kaifi Azmi speaks of love and commitment. A marriage of over a half a century, a life steeped in poetry and progressive politics, continuing...
Doing Time with Nehru
The Story of an Indian-Chinese Family
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
The midnight knock on the door and the disappearance of a loved one into the hands of authorities is a 20th-century horror story familiar to many destined to “live in interesting times.” Yet, some stories remain untold. Such is the account of the internment of ethnic chinese who had settled for...
by Irom Sharmila
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
A collection of Irom Sarmila's poems, translated into English from Meiteilon. Published on the tenth anniversary of Sarmila's hunger fast for the repeal of the Armed Forces (Special Powers) Act, a draconian law that allows the army unfettered powers in areas that are considered politically "sensitive"...