Includes bibliographical references.

Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Retrieving national symbols -- A uniquely women's protest -- How it all started -- Why Shaheen Bagh? -- Confident of their Muslim identity -- Bonds across religion and regions -- A night out at Shaheen Bagh -- Flow of poetry and music -- A library at the bus stop, an art gallery across the bridge -- Grannies lead the way -- The men behind the women -- A million Shaheen Baghs across the capital -- Shaheen Baghs everywhere -- Countering propaganda -- Barbs and bullets all the way -- A rival protest next door -- Legal cases against the protest -- A life changing stir -- About the authors.

Shaheen Bagh: From a Protest to a Movement is a moving tale of the brave women of Shaheen Bagh-patient, persevering and unbelievable peaceniks-who raised their voice for the deprived and the discriminated. Initially starting out as a cry of anguish against the allegedly discriminatory laws of the Citizenship Amendment Act and National Register of Citizens, it soon became a modern-day Gandhian movement for equal rights for all citizens. The book is a result of the authors' abiding focus on the movement, including spending time with the brave hearts almost every day of the protest from dawn to dusk and beyond. The authors slept in the open near the protest site to understand what it takes for a ninety-year-old woman to leave the comfort of her bed during a chilly winter night and stand up for the future of each one of us as equal citizens of the country. The book recounts how the women did not abjure ahimsa even when their opponents stooped to barbs and bullets. It recaptures for the reader the riveting cry for democracy that was Shaheen Bagh.

Includes slogans in Hindi; Hindi in Latin script.