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Article: (Mis)appropriated liberty: identity, gender justice, and Muslim personal law reform in India.
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- Columbia Journal of Gender and Law
- Article date:
- January 1, 2008
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"Muslims, particularly, are an undigested lump in the throat of Hindu professionals. They must be absorbed-that is Hinduized--or coughed up." (1)
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