01425nam a22001337a 4500020001800000082002200018100002100040245007600061260004000137300001600177504003600193520096100229650010101190  a9789386682116  a305.420954bVAS-E  aVasundhara Mohan  aElectoral participation of Muslim women in Indiab: a comparative study  aNew DelhibConcept Publishingc2018  axiii, 296p.  aincludes bibliography and index  aThe aim of the research was to study the status of political participation of Muslim women in two culturally different settings in the States of Karnataka in the South and Uttar Pradesh in the North and understand the views of the Muslim community on religious restrictions, if any, on the political participation of Muslim women. Do the Indian Muslim women have political aspirations? Do they fight elections; as nominees of political parties or as independents? While the political participation of Indian women per se has been extensively studied, the status of Muslim women has not received much attention. This study is based on extensive fieldwork in 9 districts of Uttar Pradesh and 6 districts of Karnataka. Besides over 200 individual Muslim women, the views of a number of Islamic scholars, Muslim academicians, professional and students were collected in the form of written replies to questionnaire and during the course of personal interviews.  aPolitical Science vMuslim womenvPolitical activityvElectionszKarnatakazUttar PradeshzIndia