Armed insurgency in India has rarely been told through the voices of the women who joined it, and Rashmi Saksena sets out to close that gap with reporting gathered across several conflict regions.
Drawing on interviews conducted in Kashmir, Assam, Manipur and Chhattisgarh, the book traces how individual women entered militant organisations, what held them there, and what happened when they tried to step back into civilian life. The reporting stays close to its subjects, weighing ideology against family pressure, gender and plain survival, and it leaves the harder questions open rather than settling them on the reader's behalf.
What the book delivers:
• First-hand accounts gathered from women across four insurgency-affected regions of India
• Attention to the decision to join, the years inside, and the difficulty of leaving
• A reporter's framing that sets personal testimony beside the wider political record
• Discussion of identity, ideology and gender as they shape armed conflict
Suited to readers of contemporary Indian history, political journalism and women's studies, and available at Boipoka.
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