Shaheen Bagh: Muslim women contesting and theorizing citizenship and belonging during COVID-19

This paper documents an important slice of global South COVID-19 history, primarily Muslim women's protests against the Indian Government and Legislature for taking away their constitutional rights as citizens. The Shaheen Bagh mobilization has already become disruption in contemporary history stirring public intellectuals to probe question: “who is a citizen India?” scholarship public-community work. By virtue event caused enactment citizenship law, including other biometric directives, CAA-NRC-NPR, it ceased be regarded minority or marginalized occurrence. examines writings 4 prominent academics, scholars, thinkers (Romila Thapar, N. Ram, Gautam Bhatia, Patel) examining India. In order juxtapose expert musings on with embodied voices from protest ground, I am critically reading two volumes multiple essays, one edited (Seema Mustafa) co-written by civically-engaged journalists (Ziya Us Salam Uzma Ausaf) members protests. As Indian-non-Muslim, understand regarding essential part insofar secularism worthy intercultural political philosophy uphold at this temporal juncture hate, intolerance minority- baiting globally.