Documenting Exclusion, Chronicling Courage

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Rashid Kidwai and Ambar Ghosh trace the journeys of 18 Muslim women MPs, exposing systemic exclusion and chronic underrepresentation in Indian parliamentary democracy

XIn the foreword to Rashid Kidwai and Ambar Kumar Ghosh’s recently published book, “Missing from the House: Muslim Women in the Lok Sabha,” Shashi Tharoor writes that the book represents the first systematic attempt to chronicle the “missing” presence of Muslim women in Indian parliamentary politics. It documents the journeys of those few Muslim women who have succeeded in crossing the formidable threshold of the Indian Parliament.

Published by Juggernaut, this book narrates the plight of nearly 70 million Muslim women who have been largely excluded from the world’s largest democracy. It underscores how Muslim women