Domestic Violence Against Female Beggars in Hyderabad District: A Case Study Qasimabad

This Paper analyses the causes of the domestic violence against female beggars and their impacts on their lives. The paper is strictly limited to Taluka Qasimabad, District Hyderabad. The domestic violence against women exits in various forms. However, it is pretty horrible in the form being inflicted against female beggars in Qasimabad. The scores of causes for the domestic violence against female beggars range from rising poverty to population explosions with deep physical and mental impacts on the sufferers. For data collection qualitative research through Focused Group discussion method has been used through snow ball technique. 10 Cases of female beggars have been opted for the FGDs out of which two participated with their social backgrounds. The study concludes the pathetic condition of the female beggars due to multiple factors and their serious implications both physically as well as mentally. The study recommends prompt action from the Government as well as social scientist to go deep further in the social issues such as violence against the female beggars. Simultaneously there is immediate intervention of Government and the concerned department to address these issues on emergent basis as the number is likely to reach an alarming level.

Knowledge and Power: A Critique of Representation of Islamin Selected Post 9/11 Fiction in English

In the contemporary post-9/11 era, Islam has been conflated with terrorism in the popular imagination through the discursive rhetoric of radicalism, Jihadism and illegal violence. This study explores how selected fictional narratives by Western and Muslim authors participate and intervene in this reductive discursive framing. Setting up the categories of post-9/11 neo-Orientalist novel and post-9/11 counter-Orientalist novel, I explore the dual role of fictional narratives in both the reiteration of a regime of truth of radical Islamic terrorism and the strategic contestation and subversion of this rhetoric through the generation of alternative modes of knowledge and subjectivation. I investigate these thematic concerns through a close textual analysis of the selected fictional works in the light of Michel Foucault’s genealogical concepts of dispositif, power/knowledge, problematization and ethical practices of the self. The theoretical framework of this study is also shaped through the insights of Giorgio Agamben, Achilles Mbembe and Falguni Sheth on the contemporary expressions of power and those of Saba Mahmood, Karen Vintges, Neslihan Cevik and Inez Valdez regarding Muslim agency. The study concludes that strategies of racialization, gendering and sexualization play a pivotal role in the generation of objects and subjects of Islamic terrorism. This research highlights that the abnormal subjectivity of the Muslim monster-terrorist enables the post-9/11 neo-Orientalist novel to generate structures of cultural and psychological knowledge that support various forms of power. Qualitative analysis of selected Western and Muslim writers reveals that structures of historicization and politicization enable the post-9/11 counterOrientalist novel to subvert this neo-Orientalist framing of Islam and to reframe Muslim and Western subjectivities and actions through the lens of subaltern dissidence against imperial violence. This study finds that a group of post-9/11 counter-Orientalist novels also form structures of critical counter-knowledge and autonomous post-Islamist identities through the generation of a syncretic, postcolonial alternative Islamic modernity.