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{{Short description|Student organization in India}}
{{Infobox organisation
| name = {{ubl|Girls Islamic Organisation of India|گرلس اسلامک آرگنائزیشن آف انڈیا}}
| image =
| formation = {{start date and age|df=y|1984|3|5}}<ref name="BP544">{{cite book |title=Woman, Her History and Her Struggle for Emancipation |year=2009 |publisher=Bharathi Puthakalayam |page=544 |isbn=9788189909970 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NZmyUpHdPWYC&pg=PA544 |accessdate=22 April 2020}}</ref>
| type = Student Organisation
| status = Active
| headquarters = Abul Fazal Enclave Part 1, Part 1 Abul Fazal Enclave, Block E, Jamia Nagar, Okhla, New Delhi, Delhi 110025
| location =
| leader_title = National President
| leader_name = Adv Sumaiya Roshan
| parent_organisation = [[Jamaat-e-Islami Hind]]<ref name="Arndt241">{{cite book |last1=Arndt-Walter Emmerich |title=Islamic Movements in India: Moderation and its Discontents |date=11 November 2019 |publisher=[[Routledge]] |page=241 |isbn=9781000706727 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=aXu9DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT241 |accessdate=8 April 2020}}</ref>
| affiliations = [[Bangladesh Islami Chhatri Sangstha]] <small>(''[[de facto]]'')</small>
| website =
}}

'''Girls Islamic Organisation''' or '''GIO''' <ref name="Arndt13">{{cite book |last1=Arndt-Walter Emmerich |title=Islamic Movements in India: Moderation and its Discontents |date=11 November 2019 |publisher=[[Routledge]] |page=13 |isbn=9781000706727 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=aXu9DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT13 |accessdate=8 April 2020}}</ref> is a [[student organisation]] in [[India]] for Muslim girls. It came to existence under the patronage of state committees of [[Jamaat-e-Islami Hind]] as the female students' wing.

GIO actively works in a number of [[Indian state]]s including [[Rajasthan]], [[West Bengal]], [[Andhra Pradesh]], [[Telangana]], [[Maharashtra]],<ref name="JPTH">{{cite news |last1=Jyoti Punwani |title=Profiles of prejudice |url=https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/Profiles-of-prejudice/article12191950.ece?next&people&previous |accessdate=22 April 2020 |work=[[The Hindu]] |date=11 April 2013}}</ref><ref name="InT">{{cite news |title=News |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/mumbai-police-memo-girls-islamic-organisation-muslims-jamaat-e-islami-hind-157559-2013-04-01 |accessdate=22 April 2020 |publisher=[[India Today]] |date=1 April 2013 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20200422080626/https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/mumbai-police-memo-girls-islamic-organisation-muslims-jamaat-e-islami-hind-157559-2013-04-01 |archivedate=22 April 2020}}</ref> [[Kerala]],<ref name="ANI">{{cite news |title=Protest against CAA |url=https://www.aninews.in/news/national/politics/protest-against-caa-nrc-and-npr-in-kerala-by-girls-islamic-organisation-of-india20200115191021/ |accessdate=22 April 2020 |publisher=[[ANI News]] |date=15 January 2020}}</ref> [[Delhi]], [[Gujarat]] and [[Karnataka]].<ref name="TH2013">{{cite news |title=Karnataka News |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/karnataka/shock-and-disbelief-in-manipal/article4841443.ece |accessdate=22 April 2020 |work=[[The Hindu]] |date=23 June 2013}}</ref>
== History ==
Since 1984, GIO has functioned as a part of the female wing of Jamaat-e-Islami in [[Kerala]].<ref name="MI153">{{cite book |last1=Maidul Islam |title=Limits of Islamism |date=9 March 2015 |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |page=153 |isbn=9781107080263 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6qmwBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA153 |accessdate=11 April 2020}}</ref><ref name="Arndt248">{{cite book |last1=Arndt-Walter Emmerich |title=Islamic Movements in India: Moderation and its Discontents |date=11 November 2019 |publisher=[[Routledge]] |page=248 |isbn=9781000706727 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=aXu9DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT248 |accessdate=8 April 2020}}</ref><ref name="YS21">{{cite book |last1=Yōgīndar Sikkand |title=Struggling to be heard: South Asian Muslim voices |year=2004 |publisher=Global Media Publications |page=21 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ChtuAAAAMAAJ&q=girls+islamic+organisation |accessdate=10 April 2020}}</ref> Later, it was spread to create state committees in various states of [[India]].

In 2007, it started working in state of [[Andhrapradesh]] and [[Telangana]].<ref name="THI">{{cite news |title=Hyderabad News |url=https://www.thehansindia.com/news/cities/hyderabad/girls-islamic-organisation-first-meet-in-hyderabad-city-on-oct-20-572280 |accessdate=14 May 2020 |agency= |date=14 October 2014}}</ref>

It later added Goa, Delhi, Maharashtra, Gujarat, and Karnataka.

The GIO claimed that it is working in female students and young women for self empowerment, against discrimination on basis of religion,<ref name="JAHalim146-148">{{cite book |last1=Julten Abdelhalim |title=Indian Muslims and Citizenship: Spaces for Jihād in Everyday Life |date=5 October 2015 |publisher=[[Routledge]] |pages=146–148 |isbn=9781317508748 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BvOoCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT146 |accessdate=8 April 2020}}</ref> culture and caste. GIO also claims that all their activities are on to the grounds of [[Islam]].<ref name="JAHalim146-148"/> GIO conducts camps, campaigns and contests for their age group.

GIO regularly conducts study classes, and public meetings for girls. It organizes occasional campaigns for female students and young women. GIO participating or conducting the protests in women related issues.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://jamaateislamihind.org/eng/jih-mumbra-organised-anti-drugs-campaign/|title=JIH Mumbra organised anti drugs campaign|website=|date=27 January 2013|accessdate=4 March 2018}}</ref><ref name="KSD168">{{cite book |last1=K. S. Durrany |title=The Women's Movement in Religious Communities in India |year=2002 |page=168 |isbn=9788172146818 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UiwqAAAAYAAJ&q=girls+islamic+organisation |accessdate=10 April 2020}}</ref>

==See also==

* [[Students Islamic Organisation of India]]
* [[Jamaat-e-Islami Hind]]

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

[[Category:Women's education in India]]
[[Category:Islamic organisations based in India]]

Girls Islamic Organisation - Revision history

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