This Unquiet Land: Stories from India's Fault Lines
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case of Bhanwari Devi, 6–8, 11–12, 19
domestic abuse, 27
‘Gudiya,’ case of, 30–31
institutionalized and caste-driven discrimination, 19–23
marital rape, 23–24
Nirbhaya/Damini story, 10–12, 16, 30, 38–39
popular mobilization against, 9–10
sexual assaults, 26–27
Vishaka Guidelines, 8–9, 12, 28
women politicians’ sensitivity to, 17–18
Shah Bano case, 133–134
Sharif, Nawaz, 54–55, 58, 61-62, 66, 70, 75, 236, 240–250
Shastri, Lal Bahadur, 49, 223
Shinde, Sushil Kumar, 18, 99
Shiv Sena, 98, 137, 153, 220, 239, 301-302
Singh, Bhagat, 76
Singh, Giani Zail, 114-115
Singh, Maharaja Hari, 48, 150–152, 154
Singh, Jaswant, 55–56, 146
Singh, K. Suresh, 106
Singh, M. N., 99
Singh, Manmohan, 17, 55, 99, 104, 116, 175, 229, 240, 242–246, 248, 250, 277, xv–xvi
Singh, Rajnath, 215, 231, 254
Singh, V. P., 133, 158
Sisodia, Manoj, 296
‘Six Day War’ plan, 58
Sood, Vikram, 109
Srinivas, M. N., 34
Straw, Jack, 73
suffragette movement, 31
Swachh Bharat Abhiyan (Clean India Campaign), 275
Swamy, Subramanian, 238
Swaraj, Sushma, 214, 231, 253, 287,
Tankel, Stephen, 82
Tarigami, Mohammad Yousuf, 198
Tashkent Treaty, 49
terrorist violence, 76–77 in Hyderabad, 80, 100 by ISIS, 101–102
Malegaon blasts of 2008, 96, 100
26/11 Mumbai attacks, 83–96, xv
Naxalites/Maoists, 104–109
Samjhauta Express blast, 96–98
twin towers attack, New York, 81, 85, 90, 94, 167
Zaveri Bazaar blast, 77–79, 136
Thapa, Vishal, 43, 68, 70–71
Thapar, Romila, 129, 141
Tiger Hill operation, 1999, 43–46, 54–55, 61, 67
Tipnis, A.Y., 56-57
Togadia, Praveen, 123
Udwin, Leslee 39–40
uniform civil code for India, 32
Vadra, Priyanka Gandhi, 209–215, 223-224, 227
on Congress campaign, 212–214
victimhood, notion of, 210–211
Vadra, Robert, 210, 213-214, 217
Vajpayee, A. B., 55–60, 62, 64-65, 75, 125, 128, 153, 211, 231, 236, 246-248
Verma, J. S., 12–13
Varma, Ram Gopal, 91
Woolf, Naomi, 1
Woolf, Virginia, 1
Yadav, Lalu Prasad, 16, 228, 255, 281, 301
Yadav, Mulayam Singh, 20, 228, 257, 281
Yadav, Sharad, 14–15
Zardari, Asif Ali, 213, 241
Zuckerberg, Mark, 295
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