The Hindu far-right abused gender justice rhetoric to entrench discrimination against Indian Muslims, even as it remained an inherently conservative movement. The contradictions of Hindutva feminism resemble sociologist Sara Farris’ conception of ‘femonationalism’, and the Indian higher judiciary has been extensively complicit.
As eighty students in Aligarh Muslim University’s law school protest against withholding of marksheets, potentially against a Delhi High Court ruling, an alumnus reflects on deeper systemic problems in the varsity – from maladministration, to a fall in academic output.
