The Khilafat Movement: Religious Symbolism and Political Mobilization in India
(New York: Columbia University Press; New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1982).
(ed.) The Extended Family: Women and Political Participation in India and Pakistan
(Delhi: Chanakya, 1981).
(ed. with Hanna Papanek) Separate Worlds: Studies of Purdah in South Asia
(Delhi: Chanakya, 1982).
(tr.) Voices of Silence: Altaf Husain Hali's Majalis un-Nissa (Assemblies of Women)
and Chup ki Dad (Homage to the Silent)
(Delhi: Chanakya, 1986).
(ed. with Christian Troll) Ian H. Douglas, Abul Kalam Azad:
An Intellectual and Religious Biography
(New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1988).
Secluded Scholars: Women's Education and Muslim Social Reform in Colonial India
(New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998).
"Sayyid Karamat Husain and Muslim Women's Education," in Violette Graff,
ed., Lucknow: Memories of a City
(New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1997): 155-64.
"Other Voices, Other Rooms: The View from the Zenana," in Nita Kumar,
ed. Women as Subjects
(Calcutta: Stree; Charlottes-ville: University Press of Virginia, 1994): 108-24.
"Sayyid Mumtaz Ali and Tahzib un-Niswan: Women's Rights in Islam and Woman's
Journalism in Urdu," in Kenneth W. Jones,
ed. Religious Controversy in British India
(Albany: SUNY Press, 1992): 179-99.
"Sayyid Mumtaz Ali and Huquq un-Niswan: An Advocate of Women's Rights
in Islam in the late 19th Century,"
Modern Asian Studies, 24 (1990): 147-72.
"Ismat: Rashid ul-Khairi's Novels and Urdu Literary Journalism for Women," in C. Shackle,
ed. Urdu and Muslim South Asia
(London: SOAS, 1989): 129-38.
"Making Invisible Women Visible: Studying the History of Muslim Women in South Asia,"
South Asia, 9 (1986): 1-13.
"Women in Contemporary India: The Quest for Equal Participation and Justice," in J.R. Roach,
ed. India 2000: The Next Fifteen Years
(Riverdale, MD; New Delhi: Allied, 1986): 215-28.
"Shaikh Abdullah, Begam Abdullah, and Sharif Education for Girls at Aligarh," in I. Ahmad
ed. Modernization and Social Change among Muslims in India
(Delhi: Manohar, 1983): 207-36.
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