Decolonizing Democracy: Transforming the Social Contract in India

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INDEX Abdi, Parveen, 103 Adivasis, Orientalists on, 22 adoption law, reform efforts, 70 affirmative action measures. See also Women ’s Reservation Act of 2010 for low-caste and tribal groups, 74–75, 86 resistance to, 87 Agnes, Flavia on British rule, 24, 25, 27, 33 on Hindu personal law reform, 94, 96, 100, 101 Ahmad, Naziruddin, 68 AIMPLB. See All India Muslim Personal Law Board AIWC. See All-India Women’s Conference Alexander, M. Jacqui, 12 Ali, Azra Ashgar, 53 Ali, Begum Hamid, 52 All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) alternative bodies to, 103 and marriage law reform, 100–101, 102 All-India Muslim Women’s Conference establishment of, 40 and reserved seats and separate electorates , debate on, 55–56 All-India Women’s Conference (AIWC) adoption of anti-imperialist agenda, 40–41 establishment of, 40 legal reform efforts, 51–52 and voting rights activism, 54 Alva, Margaret, 80, 82, 88, 90 Ambedkar, B. R., 42, 43, 69, 88, 92–93, 95 The American Dream in Black and White (Flax), 3 Amrit Kaur, Rajkumair, 56 Anglicists on Indian civilization, 28 paternalism of, 28–43 and sati, efforts to abolish, 30–32 Anjuman-e-Khwateen-Deccan, 40 anti-caste movement and gender rights, 43 rejection of British paternalism, 42 anticolonialist politics, development of, 34–36 Aryan race, notion of Anglicists on, 29 Orientalists on, 21–22 At the Heart of Freedom (Cornell), 119 Ayodhya riots (1992–93), 99 Azmi, Iliyas, 90 Baber, Zaheer, 11, 21–22 Babri Masjid dispute, 98–99 Bahadur, Pocker, 70–71 Bajpai, Rochana, 68 Ballantyne, Tony, 22 Banerjee, Kumari Mamata, 89 Bano, Sabeeha, 102 Bano, Shah, 97–100 “Bargaining with Patriarchy” (Kandiyoti), 121 n. 13 Barq, Shafiqur Rahman, 88 Basu, Aparna, 64 Beg, Janab Mahboob Ali, 68 Bentinck, William, 28, 31 Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and personal law reform efforts, 99 Bhargava, Rajeev, 9, 74 Bharti, Uma, 82, 89 BJP. See Bharatiya Janata Party Brahmans, opposition to rule by, 42–43 144 index British East India Company administration of India, 20–21, 23–24, 31, 33 Anglicists on, 29 British rule. See also Anglicists; British East India Company; Orientalists imposition of gender inequality, 7, 10–11 limited democratic representation under, 60 politics of compensatory domination in, 6–7 Brown, Elsa Barkley, 15 Brown, Wendy, 110 Bush administration, 36 Calman, Leslie, 25 “Can the Subaltern Speak?” (Spivak), 32, 80–81 caste groups affirmative action for, 74–75, 86 political empowerment of, as ongoing project, 91 representation for, 62, 86–89 Castes of Mind (Dirks), 24 caste (jati) system, 121 n. 16. See also anticaste movement Anglicists on, 30 in Indian postcolonial racial contract, 74–75 Orientalists’ legal framework and, 24, 27, 28 reform efforts, 70 Chakravarti, Uma, 14, 25, 32 Changes in Guardianship Act, 95 Charter for Women’s Rights, 103 Chatterjee, Partha, 10, 38–39, 48, 56, 122 n. 23 Chatterjee, Somnath, 83 Chattopadhyaya, Kamaladevi, 45–46, 49 Chaudhurani, Saraladevi, 46 Chaudhuri, Rohini Kumar, 77 Chhachhi, Amrita, 102 child marriage campaign to end, 43–44, 48–49 INC backtracking on, 51 Choudhury, Arundhati Roy, 94, 95 Christian personal law and government noninterference policy, 97 reform efforts, 102 civil code, uniform optional, as strategy, 104–7, 109, 112 as pretext to impose Hindu values, 99–100, 103, 106 civil disobedience campaigns, women’s groups and, 49–50 coalitional democratic solidarity, intergroup power relations and, 57–58 colonial contract enforcement of, 8 fraternalism and paternalism as versions of, 34 as subset of racial contract, 8, 34 colonialism and Eurocentrism, 34–35 justifications for, 8; for Orientalists, 22–23; tacit consent of governed as, 8, 22–23, 122 n. 5 (See also fraternalism ; paternalism) Committee on the Status of Women in India, 73, 78–80 communal identities in India, racialization of, 11, 22, 122 n. 25 comparative political theory and anticolonialist politics, development of, 34–36 antifraternalist, importance of, 35–36 goals of, 35 Indian democracy and, 8–9 rejection of Eurocentrism, 35 compensatory domination, politics of British rule and, 6–7 and challenging of inequitable forms of rule, 7–8 colonial fraternalism and, 19 and Constituent Assembly, 71 egalitarian pluralism and, 94, 114 feminist rejection of, 56 Hindu personal law reform and, 96 and Indian constitution, 1 Indian resistance to, 10–11 Indian women and, 121 n. 13 inherent contradictions in, exposure of, 14 and intergroup power relations within democratic struggle, 57–58, 87–89, 91 joint governance model and, 105–6 nationalists and, 40, 50–51 necessity of challenging, 1 and oppressed groups, 14 Orientalist legal policies...