Hem Borker
Biographic Data
| ID | 178545 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hem Borker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hem |
| FAMILY NAME | Borker |
| SIGNATURE | BORKER H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jamia Millia Islamia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6588-6848 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Devika Mittal, School as a Secular Space in Contemporary India
Sufi Women of South Asia
The ‘Housewife’ on an Education Mission
The article employs the ethnographic portrait of the founder and co-owner of a chain of girls’ madrasas in a Muslim-dominated mofussil town in Uttar Pradesh to illuminate the current moment at which girls’ madrasas stand in a rapidly changing India. These madrasas use a range of imaginaries from the global ummah to the pious educated Indian Muslim woman to recast madrasa education, offering a mix of formalised religious education and modern schoo…
Aspiring Inside a Girls Madrasa
This article draws on my ethnography of girls’ madrasas in India. It is woven around the ethnographic portrait of Zainab, 1 a rather reluctant madrasa student studying in a residential girls’ madrasa in Delhi who aspires to be a doctor. The article employs ethnographic portraiture to ‘focus in’ on Zainab’s educational journey and life in the madrasa, while also drawing attention to the larger canvas of intersecting forms of marginalisation, gende…
Saba Hussain, Contemporary Muslim Girlhoods in India
Inside a Residential Girls' Madrasa in India
This essay explores everyday life inside girls' madrasas. Through a series of images gathered over 12 months of ethnographic fieldwork in a residential girls' madrasa in Delhi and visits to several others across North India, I describe how young girls experience education in the madrasa. I argue that the ideal of a perfect Muslim woman (kamil momina) that students learn and embody differs from the one that the madrasa seeks to cultivate. At one l…
Policy Perspective vs. Field View
This paper examines the policy prescriptions that seek to address the educational backwardness of Muslim minorities in India. In particular, it highlights the flawed focus on madrasa reform in these documents and the linearism reflected in policy recommendations on madrasa modernisation. It draws on field-based narratives to challenge the flawed binaries of traditional and modern, religious and secular, which underpin the policy initiatives of ma…
Inside a Residential Girls' Madrasa in India
This essay explores everyday life inside girls' madrasas. Through a series of images gathered over 12 months of ethnographic fieldwork in a residential girls' madrasa in Delhi and visits to several others across North India, I describe how young girls experience education in the madrasa. I argue that the ideal of a perfect Muslim woman (kamil momina) that students learn and embody differs from the one that the madrasa seeks to cultivate. At one l…
Aspiring Inside a Girls Madrasa
This article draws on my ethnography of girls’ madrasas in India. It is woven around the ethnographic portrait of Zainab, 1 a rather reluctant madrasa student studying in a residential girls’ madrasa in Delhi who aspires to be a doctor. The article employs ethnographic portraiture to ‘focus in’ on Zainab’s educational journey and life in the madrasa, while also drawing attention to the larger canvas of intersecting forms of marginalisation, gende…
Policy Perspective vs. Field View
This paper examines the policy prescriptions that seek to address the educational backwardness of Muslim minorities in India. In particular, it highlights the flawed focus on madrasa reform in these documents and the linearism reflected in policy recommendations on madrasa modernisation. It draws on field-based narratives to challenge the flawed binaries of traditional and modern, religious and secular, which underpin the policy initiatives of ma…
Inside a Residential Girls' Madrasa in India
This essay explores everyday life inside girls' madrasas. Through a series of images gathered over 12 months of ethnographic fieldwork in a residential girls' madrasa in Delhi and visits to several others across North India, I describe how young girls experience education in the madrasa. I argue that the ideal of a perfect Muslim woman (kamil momina) that students learn and embody differs from the one that the madrasa seeks to cultivate. At one l…
Saba Hussain, Contemporary Muslim Girlhoods in India
The ‘Housewife’ on an Education Mission
The article employs the ethnographic portrait of the founder and co-owner of a chain of girls’ madrasas in a Muslim-dominated mofussil town in Uttar Pradesh to illuminate the current moment at which girls’ madrasas stand in a rapidly changing India. These madrasas use a range of imaginaries from the global ummah to the pious educated Indian Muslim woman to recast madrasa education, offering a mix of formalised religious education and modern schoo…
Aspiring Inside a Girls Madrasa
This article draws on my ethnography of girls’ madrasas in India. It is woven around the ethnographic portrait of Zainab, 1 a rather reluctant madrasa student studying in a residential girls’ madrasa in Delhi who aspires to be a doctor. The article employs ethnographic portraiture to ‘focus in’ on Zainab’s educational journey and life in the madrasa, while also drawing attention to the larger canvas of intersecting forms of marginalisation, gende…
Sufi Women of South Asia
Devika Mittal, School as a Secular Space in Contemporary India
Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Education and Islamic Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Ethnography (3 works)