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There has been a steady decline in India’s overall sex ratio (SR) over the 20th century. Something entirely new, going beyond the traditional cultural arguments, is afoot, as anti-female attitudes spread to new regions and new communities, armed with technology and aggression.

Since independence Indian historians have revisited all the assumptions of colonial historiography; religious identities were no more the determining element. History was no longer mono-causal but multifaceted to include social and economic structures

A video recording of Sultana Kamal from Bangladesh speaking at the International Conference on the Religious-Right, Secularism and Civil Rights in London held on 11-12 October 2014.

Concerned about the highly vitiated atmosphere prevailing in the country, characterized by various forms of intolerance, we, as academic historians and as responsible citizens of a democracy that has greatly valued its inherited traditions of tolerance, wish to express our anguish and protest about the prevailing condition.

25 years since the eviction of 75,000 Muslims by the Tamil Tigers from Sri Lanka’s North, the livelihood concerns of this marginalised section remain neglected. It is time for the political elite — both Sinhala and Tamil — to probe their own consciences and evolve a more inclusive resettlement framework