https://mainstreamweekly.net/ Mainstream Weekly ISSN (Mainstream Online) : 2582-7316 Author Submission Guidelines Mainstream's Privacy Policy Donate to Support Mainstream Weekly en SPIP - www.spip.net https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH42/siteon0-5599c.jpg?1780229567 https://mainstreamweekly.net/ 42 144 https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article11052.html https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article11052.html 2021-06-18T19:40:47Z text/html en Uma Chakravarti <p>(Extracted from her unpublished and unfinished memoir by Uma Chakravarti) <br class='autobr' /> Khadija Ansari Gupta was born in 1932 in Firanghi Mahal, Lucknow which trained ulema and was famous in the Islamic world for its rationalist syllabi which was adopted in institutions as far as Egypt. Her father was a liberal, perhaps even radical student of Maulana Abdul Bari, who was known for his erudition. In the 1920's Bari sahib became a supporter of the Khilafat movement and drew the famous Ali brothers into (…)</p> - <a href="https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/rubrique120.html" rel="directory">2021</a> https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article9707.html https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article9707.html 2020-07-24T06:18:34Z text/html en Uma Chakravarti <p>These days news reports of arbitrary arrests, jails and jail conditions are a reminder of the sudden and dramatic imposition of the Emergency in 1975, when there was no recourse to legal remedy of any kind — no vakil, no daleel and no appeal — which became shorthand for the suspension of civil rights. Those who went to jail just stayed there until the end of the Emergency, when Indira Gandhi was swept out of power in the general elections of 1977. Despite substantial differences between then (…)</p> - <a href="https://www.mainstreamweekly.net/rubrique115.html" rel="directory">2020</a>