02115nam a22001577a 4500 915.4 Ikramullah, Shaista Suhrawardy, Begum From Purdah to Parliament Begum Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah London Cresset Press 1963 xi,168 Pages 14x22 cm HB Life of a traditionally reared Muslim woman who became a political hostess and then MP in the First Constituent Assembly of Pakistan. Begum Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah was a Pakistani author, politician, diplomat and social-activist whose life bridges the late colonial and post-colonial phases of South Asian history. Her biography illustrates the discursive pressures shaping the lives of upper and intermediate class men and women of her generation, particularly as manifested in the unquestioned tropes of modernization theory. However, the same life reveals that her notion of the tradition-modernity dichotomy does not extend to the equation of Islam with tradition. The secular-religious divide, in fact, does not feature in her thought or activism at all. The latter activism also problematizes the assumption that Muslim women, any more of less than non-Muslims, are marginal or peripheral players in the history of the twentieth century. Born before the last vestige of Mughal civilization had quite disappeared from the subcontinent, Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah spent her childhood in the heyday of British Imperialism and the early years of her youth coincided with the period when the struggle for Independence was gathering momentum. She was one of the few Muslim women to take part in the Pakistan Movement and witness the liquidation of an Empire and the heralding of a new state--Pakistan. The book takes up from where the 1963 edition ended. This new edition covers her life as an Assembly member, UN delegate (1948 and 1956), and Ambassador to Morocco (1964--67). Ikramullah, Shaista Suhrawardy, 1915-2000 Pakistan Politics and government India Legislators Diplomats Women--Social conditions Muslim women BK 11581 11581 0 0 0 915_400000000000000_I269F_1963 0 NFIC 11746 GPL GPL GEN 2017-01-17 MSL 915.4 I269F 1963 928 2017-01-17 2017-01-17 BK