1st Edition
Gender, Nation, and Nationalism Perspectives of Tibetan Women in Exile
1. Introduction 2. Tracing the History 3. Interfaces of Gender, Nation, and Nationalism 4. Interrogating Tibetan Women’s Construction of the Idea of the Tibetan Nation: Evidence from the Field 5. Tibetan Women in Exile and Their Contributions to Tibetan Nationalism: Agents or Symbols? 6. Tibetan Women in Exile: Position, Agency, and Aspirations 7. Conclusion, Bibliography, Appendix 1: Stories of Tibetan Women in Exile, Appendix 2: Students’ Enrolment in Tibetan Schools in Exile as on March 31, 2019, Index
Biography
Amrita Saikia received her Ph.D. from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India. Currently, she is an Associate at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies, Hamburg, Germany. From November 2023 to October 2024, she was a visiting fellow funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation at the Institute for Asian Studies, German Institute for Global and Area Studies, Hamburg.
