The Trauma and the Triumph: Gender and Partition in Eastern India, Vol 2 edited by Jashodhara Bagchi, Subhoranjan Dasgupta and Subhashri Ghosh (Stree: Kolkata), 2009; pp 276 + x, Rs 550.
A Muslim woman living in Europe talks of her experiences with markers of Islam and her reasons for affiliating herself with Muslimness alongside equally powerful reasons for distancing herself from its overt expressions in the public sphere.