Writing the Nation on the Beauty Queen's Body: Implications for a "Hindu" Nation

Abstract

Miss Indias are nationally honored and make the front page of national dailies, sashayed and crowned, standing side by side with the beaming leaders of the country. Ahmed-Ghosh discusses the representations of women, their bodies, and their imaging in the national rhetoric of India in the last decade. He tries to unravel the oft contradictory stance taken by the government and government-supported media to understand who the "new" Indian woman is supposed to be.