• ISBN13: 9789384757786
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Sociology and Anthropology
• Publisher: Zubaan
• Publisher Imprint: Zubaan
• Publication Date: May 13, 2019
• Pages: 320
• Original Price: 850.0 INR
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 790 grams

Breaching the Citadel is part of Zubaan’s Sexual Violence and Impunity in South Asia series. It showcases new and path breaking research on the structures that contribute towards creating and sustaining impunity for perpetrators of sexual violence. Focusing on medical protocols, the functioning of the law, the psycho-social making of impunity, the media., history and current politics, the book makes a valuable addition to work on Kashmir, the Northeast of India, Chhattisgarh and other regions of violence that are discussed in its sister publication, Fault Lines of History. This book is a must-read for students of women and gender studies, conflict, development, history, current politics and sexuality studies.
Contributors: Temsula Ao | Divya Arya | Urvashi Butalia | Uma Chakravarti | Rajashri Dasgupta | Padma Bhate-Deosthali | Neha Dixit | Bani Gill | Vrinda Grover | Suzette Jordan | Christine Marrewa Karwoski | Laxmi Murthy | Farah Naqvi | Kavita Panjabi | Jagadeesh Narayan Reddy | Sangeeta Rege | Meena Saraswathi Seshu | Navsharan Singh | Shobhna Sonpar.

Urvashi Butalia is the director and founder of Zubaan and the author and editor of numerous books, including The Other Side of Silence: Voices from the Partition of India and Partition: The Long Shadow. She has co-edited Women and the Hindu Right: A Collection of Essays and In Other Words: New Writing by Women in India. She has been active in the women’s and civil rights movements in India and writes on issues relating to women, media and communalism. Laxmi Murthy is Contributing Editor at Himal Southasian, the region’s only political review magazine. She also heads the Hri Institute for Southasian Research and Exchange, a unit of the South Asia Trust, Kathmandu. She is deputy coordinator of the Sexual Violence and Impunity Project at Zubaan. She has authored Four Years of the Ceasefire Agreement between the Government of India and the National Socialist Council of Nagalim: Promises and Pitfalls, with Ram Narayan Kumar. She is co-author, with Rajashri Dasgupta, of Our Pictures, Our Words: A Visual Journey Through the Women’s Movement (Zubaan, 2011). She has co-edited, with Meena Seshu, The Business of Sex (Zubaan, 2013) and with Mitu Varma, Garrisoned Minds: Women and Armed Conflict in South Asia (2016).