from the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program of the Library of Congress, sponsored by the U.S. Army:
India: Family
India: Marriage
India: Veiling and the Seclusion of Women
Sri Lanka: Family
Nepal: Rural Society and Kinship; Women's Status and Role
Pakistan: Men and Women, Gender Relations
Pakistan: The Status of Women and the Women's Movement
Bangladesh: Family, Household, and Kinship
Bangladesh: Women's Role in Society
from Women Writing in India: essay against caste oppression written in 1855 by Muktabai, a fourteen-year-old pupil of Phule's
Early Bolshevik Work Among Women of the Soviet East
(Women and Revolution)
Phoolan Devi:
India's Bandit Queen (The Atlantic)
Arundhati Roy on Shekkar Kapur's Bandit Queen
Caste as woman: izzat and larai* in Northern India by Angela Aujla
crimes against women:
Dishonour and Death in India by Ritu and Menon
Getting Away with Murder by Uddalak Mukherjee
(on the role of caste panchayats in honor killings)
International Campaign Against Honour Killings news archive
PAKISTAN: Honour killings of girls and women (Amnesty International)
Crime or Custom?: Violence Against Women in Pakistan
(Human Rights Watch)
When the Voiceless Find Voice: Mukhtaran Mai, the Conscience of Pakistan (Vinay Lal)
Canada: The “Honour” Killing of Aqsa Parvez (Spartacist Canada)
Indian brides pay a high price by Amelia Gentleman (on dowry deaths)
Dalits beheaded for falling in love (Meenal Baghel)
Are our sisters and daughters for sale? by Himendra Thakur
(on dowry and bride-burning)
80 Million Women Maimed: The Crime of Female Genital Mutilation (Women and Revolution)
Dialogue Between an Advocate for, and An Opponent of the Practice of Burning Widows Alive by Rammohan Roy (1820)
Muslim women:
official home page of Taslima Nasrin
audio archive: Taslima Nasrin on National Public Radio
Gujarat Carnage—Impact on Women at onlinevolunteers.org
Threatened Existence: A Feminist Analysis of the Genocide in Gujarat
by the International Initiative for Justice
Shah Bano: Muslim Women's Rights
an educational case study by Laura Dudley Jenkins
For Separation of Religion and State: No to Ontario's "Sharia Courts"! (Spartacist Canada)
women and labor:
Women and the Economy in India (U.S. Census Bureau)
Behind a Hot Smoke, Hard Labor: Women Toil to Supply Bidi Cigarette (Wall Street Journal)
Industrial Riots Reveal Bangladesh's Crisis of Governance
(Power and Interest News Report)
India: Women's Agricultural Labor (photography by Saundra Sturdevant)
Part I: Field and Domestic labor
Part II: Ancillary Labor
sexual minorities:
Homosexuality in India: Past and Present by Ruth Vanita
Sangama (sexual minority rights group in Bangalore)
People's Union for Civil Liberties report:
Rampant violation of rights of sexuality minorities
Hijra by Serena Nanda (Encyclopedia of World Cultures)
The Fringes of Society: Sadhus and Hijras (India: A Country Study)
South Asian Citizens Web page on sexual minorities
resources:
South Asia Citizens Web page on women's rights
Three Essays Collective (publisher)
