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Azadi's Daughter, A Memoir: Being a Secular Muslim in India

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  • ENGLISH

    Language
  • 184

    Pages
  • 9789386582195

    ISBN
  • 129 mm

    Width
  • 198 mm

    Height
  • 155 gram

    Weight
  • AZADI’S

    Edition
  • PAPERBACK

    Binding
  • 2012

    Publish Date
  • 15 mm

    Spine Width

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    A fascinating account of an audacious woman's journey and a rapidly vanishing way of life, Azadi's Daughter. is both a personal memoir and a political commentary. Journalist Seema Mustafa writes evocatively of the secular, pluralist India of the 1960's and 70s, chronicling her life as a Muslim woman born into the nationalist, progressive Kidwai family in Lucknow. As a child, her life was untouched by communalism, and even as she realizes that this was not the case for many, her book is a testament to the syncretic nature of secularism, in which a staunchly Muslim household was not limited to conservative interpretations...  Read More

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    Seema Mustafa

    Seema Mustafa is an Indian print and television journalist.
    Seema Mustafa‏ was born in Delhi on to a muslim family with roots in Uttar Pradesh. Her father, Lt.Col. Syed Mustafa, was an Indian Army officer. Her mother was the daughter of Shafi Ahmed Kidwai, brother of Rafi Ahmed Kidwai, a noted freedom fighter and Congress politician. Shafis wife Anis Kidwai (Seemas maternal grandmother) was sometime a Rajya Sabha MP belonging to the Congress party. Seema has two elder brothers, S.P. Mustafa (known as Bobby), group treasurer of Hindustan Unilever, and Kamal Mustafa, now retired but once the Head of Global M&A of Citibank.
    Seema graduated with a BA in Political Science from Lucknow University in Uttar Pradesh. During her college days, she met and married a Hindu businessman and had two children, Agneya Singh and Gayeti Singh. She and her husband are now divorced.

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