This article bring to light how Muslim women’s groups have fought to strengthen personal rights of women in marriage and the family and at the same time fought against vilification of their community on charges of communal violence. It maps how their activism has brought about positive shifts in popular debates, court judgments and Muslim Personal Law Board. The most important contribution of these women groups is that their activism has spread the debate around ‘arbitary talaq’ and alerted more people to the unjustness of this practice in a way that many progressive judgments in the courts has failed to achieve.

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