Some five decades before the Rushdie affair, Rashid Jahan, a young Muslim woman in India, was warned by newspaper announcements to retract the two stories she had contributed to a collection in Urdu called Angarey (Live Coals). She was also threatened with kidnapping and disfigurement; community leaders denounced her and her three male collaborators. Friends urged her to employ a bodyguard; she did not do so, saying that it would interfere with her work as a doctor in poor areas. Angarey came out in 1932. Within months, the British government had banned it, citing section 295A of the Indian Penal Code which targets any person who, “with deliberate and malicious intention,” attempts to “outrag[e] … the religious feelings of any class of His Majesty's subjects, by words either spoken or written, or by visible representations” (104). As a woman, and one who had chosen to write about sexual harassment, birth control, pregnancy, abortion, and women's health, Rashid Jahan (called “Angareywali” or “The ‘Angarey’ Woman” by some) became the symbol of the cultural violence allegedly perpetrated by the collection of stories.