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The Urdu novelist and short story writer Intizar Hussayn, in his story "Ihsan
Manzil," describes the anxiety produced in a northern Indian Muslim community when a
magazine arrives addressed to the daughter of a respectable household. Set in the early part of the
20th century, the story depicts how the Muslim woman's name on the envelope, exposed as
it was to the whole world, became a metaphor for modernity, the public, and the outside
penetrating Muslim moral boundaries and domestic ethos. Similar to Hussayn's incisive
depiction of changes within Indian Muslim households, Gail Minault gives us a sense of how
religious reform, expanding opportunities for education for both genders, and colonial
modernization in the first half of the 20th century undermined and challenged traditional aspects
of middle-class Muslim life in northern India.

Papers presented at the Workshop: Comparing Urban Landscapes, held at Lahore in April 2004

The essays in this book critically examine the ways in which gendered subjects negotiate their life-worlds in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African urban landscapes. They raise issues surrounding the city as a representative site of personal autonomy and political possibilities for women and/or men.

A number of studies, publications, conferences and anniversary events took place in 2018 to commemorate the 50th birthday of the legendary year 1968. These were accompanied by a raft of scholarly and popular assessments of the "long 1960s", the "global sixties" and/or the "radical sixties". The predominant empirical sites for analysis and retrospective were Western Europe and the United States of America. Other world regions were discussed to a clearly lesser extent. Apart from the crucial event of the Vietnam War, the (long) 1960s in Asia did not figure very prominently in the various publications on the topic. This issue of IQAS seeks to focus on the 1960s in Asia, covering East, Southeast and South Asia and discussing the decade from perspectives that have often escaped notice. It sheds a critical light on the notion of the "global sixties" and focuses on the local in order to grasp the spirit of the 1960s in selected Asian countries. It looks at individual nation-states but also transcends their borders, tracing transnational and transregional connectivities, mobilities and relations. It reminds us of radical junctures in countries' histories that did not pave the way for freedom, peace and democracy – as conventional connotations of "1968" and "the sixties" predominantly suggest. The contributions to this issue thus cover the dark as well as the light side of the 1960s and share the conviction that research on this revolutionary decade's ramifications in Asia is still a field with many blank spots.

A number of studies, publications, conferences and anniversary events took place in 2018 to commemorate the 50th birthday of the legendary year 1968. These were accompanied by a raft of scholarly and popular assessments of the "long 1960s", the "global sixties" and/or the "radical sixties". The predominant empirical sites for analysis and retrospective were Western Europe and the United States of America. Other world regions were discussed to a clearly lesser extent. Apart from the crucial event of the Vietnam War, the (long) 1960s in Asia did not figure very prominently in the various publications on the topic. This issue of IQAS seeks to focus on the 1960s in Asia, covering East, Southeast and South Asia and discussing the decade from perspectives that have often escaped notice. It sheds a critical light on the notion of the "global sixties" and focuses on the local in order to grasp the spirit of the 1960s in selected Asian countries. It looks at individual nation-states but also transcends their borders, tracing transnational and transregional connectivities, mobilities and relations. It reminds us of radical junctures in countries' histories that did not pave the way for freedom, peace and democracy - as conventional connotations of "1968" and "the sixties" predominantly suggest. The contributions to this issue thus cover the dark as well as the light side of the 1960s and share the conviction that research on this revolutionary decade's ramifications in Asia is still a field with many blank spots.