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Power, privilege and women in the equation of ethno-cracy and citizenship: a commentary on Rohini Hensman’s paper

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  1. Useful readings see Yuval Davis and Anthias (1989).

  2. It was mainly Sinhalese poor rural youth who were enlisted as soldiers to fight the ‘terrorist war’. Families of the [Tamil] LTTE soldiers who were killed during the war were not compensated.

  3. Communalisation is a process of formation of an exclusivist collective identity across class-caste-gender divisions on the basis of language and/or religion in a multi-ethnie society, with the intent of mobilising the people for political purposes under given historical conditions. They are not constants but variables, their changes being largely conditioned by changes in political–economic conditions and the balance of political continuity.

  4. Muslim Personal law reforms (since the 1929 reforms committee up to 1992 and recently 2009) agitation by Muslim women activists have been blocked by vested interests and religious elites evoking religion, culture and tradition arguments to deny gender equity family law reforms. Also see Sharmila’s case in, The New Indian Express story on Lankan Muslim intelligentsia speak up for harassed writer, April 27, 2015.

  5. Muslims are people who adhere to Islam/practicing their faith in diverse sociopolitical contexts among these, class identity, ethnie, sect, etc.

  6. Taylor and Yapps (1979).

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  • Shaheed, F., 1998. Constructing identities—Culture, women’s agency and the Muslim world—Dossier 26 Oct 2004, Women Living Under Muslim Laws.

  • Taylor, D., and M. Yapps (eds.). 1979. Political Identity in South Asia. London: Curzon Press.

  • Yuval Davis, N., and F. Anthias (eds.). 1989. Woman-Nation-State. London: Macmillan.

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  • Zackariya, F., and N. Shanmugaratnam. 1997. Communalism of Muslims in Sri Lankan: An historical perspective. In Alternative perspectives: A collection of essays on contemporary Muslim society, Colombo: Muslim Women’s Research and Action Forum.

  • Zackariya, F. 2014. Claiming spaces and voices beyond the notion of legal equality: The struggle of 25 years to reform Muslim Personal Law. In Women claiming rights and spaces: Activism to reform Muslim Personal Law in Sri Lanka, Colombo: Muslim Women’s Research and Action Forum.

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Zackariya, F. Power, privilege and women in the equation of ethno-cracy and citizenship: a commentary on Rohini Hensman’s paper. Dialect Anthropol 39, 295–300 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10624-015-9389-y

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