Women's Movement in Manipur
Author: Thokchom Binarani Devi
Publisher: Concept Publishing Company
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9788180697791
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Author: Thokchom Binarani Devi
Publisher: Concept Publishing Company
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9788180697791
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Teresa Rehman
Publisher: Zubaan Books
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789384757762
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJuly 15, 2004: An amazing scene unfolds in front of the Kangla Fort in Manipur, the headquarters of the Assam Rifles, a unit of the Indian army. Soldiers and officers watch aghast as twelve women, all in their sixties and seventies, position themselves in front of the gates and then, one by one, strip themselves naked. The imas, the mothers of Manipur, are in a cold fury, protesting the custodial rape and murder of Thangjam Manorama, a 32-year-old woman, alleged by the army to be a militant. The women hold aloft banners that shout, 'Indian Army Rape Us', 'Take Our Flesh'. Never has this happened before: the army is appalled. Hundreds of thousands of people around the country, watching the drama unfold, are shocked. Can this be possible? A naked protest in India? By mothers? The imas of Manipur are known to be strong, self-sufficient. It is they who by and large run the economy of the state; here, though, they are doing something different. Manorama's death is the trigger for their renewed protest against the Draconian Armed Forces Special Powers Act 1958, which is used with impunity in the state and excuses all sorts of army excesses. Manipur has witnessed several decades of low-intensity war with more than twenty militant outfits operating in the state. In this unusual book, journalist Teresa Rehman, tells the story of the twelve women, of how they took the momentous decision - in some cases unknown to their families - and how they carried it out with precision and care. The story of the mothers of Manipur reflects the larger history of the conflict-torn state and of the courage and resistance of the people in the face of overwhelming odds.
Author: Mahendra Narain Karna
Publisher: Indus Publishing
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9788173870835
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCollection of papers presented at a seminar with special reference to women, youth and religion in August 1994 at Shillong.
Author: Tingneichong G. Kipgen
Publisher: Gyan Publishing House
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9788178358031
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thingnam Anjulika Samom, (ed.)
Publisher: Zubaan
Published: 2019-12-10
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9385932977
DOWNLOAD EBOOKManipur has a rich tradition of folk and oral narratives, as well as written texts dating from as early as in 8th Century AD. It was however only in the second half of the twentieth century that women began writing and publishing their works. Today, women’s writing forms a vibrant part of Manipuri literature, and their voices are amplified through their coming together as an all-woman literary group. Put together in discussions and workshops by Thingnam Anjulika Samom, Crafting the Word captures a region steeped in conservative patriarchy and at the centre of an armed conflict. It is also a place, however, where women’s activism has been at the forefront of peace-making and where their contributions in informal commerce and trade hold together the economy of daily life.
Author: N. Joykumar Singh
Publisher:
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9788183240512
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Manjusri Chaki-Sircar
Publisher:
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 280
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Binodini Devi
Publisher: India Penguin Modern Classics
Published: 2020-07-13
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780143446514
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Manipuri writer Binodini's Sahitya Akademi Award-winning historical novel The Princess and the Political Agent tells the love story of her aunt Princess Sanatombi and Lt. Col. Henry P. Maxwell, the British representative in the subjugated Tibeto-Burman kingdom of Manipur. A poignant story of love and fealty, treachery and valour, it is set in the midst of the imperialist intrigues of the British Raj, the glory of kings, warring princes, clever queens and loyal retainers. Reviving front-page global headlines of the day, Binodini's perspective is from the vanquished by love and war, and the humbling of a proud kingdom. Its sorrows and empathy sparkle with wit and beauty, as it deftly dissects the build-up and aftermath of the perfidy of the Anglo-Manipuri War of 1891. Binodini is the supreme stylist of contemporary Manipuri literature and an icon of Manipuri modernism, and her tale of a forbidden love and ostracism vividly brings to life the court and manners of a little-known Asian kingdom. In doing so, she recovers its little-known history, its untold relations with India and Great Britain, and a forgotten chapter of the British Raj.
Author: Ziya Us Salam
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2020-08-30
Total Pages: 198
ISBN-13: 939007794X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom Delhi to Chennai, a million Shaheen Baghs. A copy of the Constitution in one hand, the tricolour in the other, Shaheen Bagh became a symbol of a vibrant democracy and secular pilgrimage. But who were these women who braved it all? Shaheen Bagh: From a Protest to a Movement is a moving tale of the brave women of Shaheen Bagh-patient, persevering and unbelievable peaceniks-who raised their voice for the deprived and the discriminated. Initially starting out as a cry of anguish against the allegedly discriminatory laws of the Citizenship Amendment Act and National Register of Citizens, it soon became a modern-day Gandhian movement for equal rights for all citizens. The book is a result of the authors' abiding focus on the movement, including spending time with the brave hearts almost every day of the protest from dawn to dusk and beyond. The authors slept in the open near the protest site to understand what it takes for a ninety-year-old woman to leave the comfort of her bed during a chilly winter night and stand up for the future of each one of us as equal citizens of the country. The book recounts how the women did not abjure ahimsa even when their opponents stooped to barbs and bullets. It recaptures for the reader the riveting cry for democracy that was Shaheen Bagh. Authors Ziya Us Salam and Uzma Ausaf take us on this glorious journey of the making of Shaheen Bagh and how it became a metaphor for resistance, spawning a hundred Shaheen Baghs across the country in a bid to restore the sanctity of the Constitution, the national flag and the national anthem.
Author: Indira J. Parikh
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 113
ISBN-13: 9788120405974
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