Saba Hussain is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK.

• List of illustrations; Acknowledgement; 1. Introduction; 2. Social justice, politics of authorisation, and agency: theoretical conundrums in the study of contemporary Muslim girlhoods; 3. Framing ‘difference’: Muslim girls and educational policy regime in India; 4. Teachers’ narratives: framing ‘difference’ as pathological; 5. Good girls and good families: symbolic capital and cultural authorisation; 6. Reflexive selves: Muslim girls’ (re)constructions of ‘self’; 7. Conclusion: from narratives ‘about’ Muslim girls to Muslim girls’ narratives of ‘self’; Bibliography; Index;

Saba Hussain is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK.

• List of illustrations; Acknowledgement; 1. Introduction; 2. Social justice, politics of authorisation, and agency: theoretical conundrums in the study of contemporary Muslim girlhoods; 3. Framing ‘difference’: Muslim girls and educational policy regime in India; 4. Teachers’ narratives: framing ‘difference’ as pathological; 5. Good girls and good families: symbolic capital and cultural authorisation; 6. Reflexive selves: Muslim girls’ (re)constructions of ‘self’; 7. Conclusion: from narratives ‘about’ Muslim girls to Muslim girls’ narratives of ‘self’; Bibliography; Index;

Saba Hussain is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK.

• List of illustrations; Acknowledgement; 1. Introduction; 2. Social justice, politics of authorisation, and agency: theoretical conundrums in the study of contemporary Muslim girlhoods; 3. Framing ‘difference’: Muslim girls and educational policy regime in India; 4. Teachers’ narratives: framing ‘difference’ as pathological; 5. Good girls and good families: symbolic capital and cultural authorisation; 6. Reflexive selves: Muslim girls’ (re)constructions of ‘self’; 7. Conclusion: from narratives ‘about’ Muslim girls to Muslim girls’ narratives of ‘self’; Bibliography; Index;