Understanding Women’s Land Rights: Gender Discrimination in Ownership

Author:   Prem Chowdhry
Publisher:   SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd
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9789386446312


Pages:   440
Publication Date:   03 August 2017
Format:   Hardback
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In India, inheritance laws and social practices systematically deny women ownership of productive resources. In this collection of essays, well-known social scientists critically evaluate existing state laws regarding land ownership. The varied forms of gender discrimination that exist between and within regions, communities, and caste groups are studied. Few women own land, and even fewer effectively control it. The book recommends ways to counter this inequality by challenging laws and sociocultural values that allow discrimination to persist. Understanding Women's Land Rights is the XIII volume in the series 'Land Reforms in India', initiated by the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie. The XI and XIII volumes study gender-unequal land rights in 14 Indian states.

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Author:   Prem Chowdhry
Publisher:   SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd
Imprint:   SAGE Publications India Pvt Ltd
Weight:   0.630kg
ISBN:  

9789386446312


ISBN 10:   9386446316
Pages:   440
Publication Date:   03 August 2017
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Foreword by Uma Chawdhry Acknowledgements A Note from the Centre Director - Sridhar C. Editor’s Introduction Persisting Gender Discrimination in Land Rights - Prem Chowdhry Andhra Pradesh Land Rights and Land Access to Women in Andhra Pradesh - E. Revathi Arunachal Pradesh Engendering Tribal Land Rights for Gendering the Land: A Case Study among Apatani and Nyishi Communities - Rimi Tadu Chhattisgarh Gender Issues in Land Ownership in Chhattisgarh: Existing Land Laws, Policies, and Practices - Ramesh Sharma Goa Women and Land Rights in the Context of Legal Propertied Equality in Goa - Ritu Dewan Gujarat Women Empowerment through Land Ownership Rights: Critical Assessment of Their Status in Gujarat - Itishree Pattnaik Jammu and Kashmir Gendering the Land Ownership Question in Jammu and Kashmir - Abha Chauhan Jharkhand Understanding Women and Land Rights in Jharkhand - M. N. Karna Maharashtra Land, Land Rights, and Women in Maharashtra - Ritu Dewan Mizoram Women’s Access and Ownership of Land: A Case of Mizoram State in India - Saroj Arora Nagaland Gender and Land Relations: Emerging Issues about Nagaland - C. Sridhar, Saroj Arora, and Khunenchu Magh Rajasthan Persisting Inequalities: Gender and Land Rights in Rajasthan - Kanchan Mathur Sikkim Locating Gender in Land Rights Discourse of Sikkim - Sohel Firdos Tamil Nadu Women’s Land Rights in the Context of Neo-liberal Tamil Nadu - Ranjani K. Murthy Uttarakhand Gender Justice and Law: A Gender Specific Study of Land Ownership in Uttarakhand - Indu Pathak Index

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The author highlight the need to strengthen the empowerment of woman in the field of education, land/property and employment. The author revealed varied forms of gender discrimination that exist between and within regions, communities, and caste groups. This volume contains 14 essays which critically evaluate the existing state laws, statutes and customary laws with regard to women's land rights. It is a pioneering work as it combines both fieldwork, and the existing literature on the land rights of women. -- THE TRIBUNE, 22 April 2018


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Prem Chowdhry, an eminent Social Scientist, is a former Professorial Fellow of the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, Teen Murti, New Delhi, and also a former Senior Fellow of the Council of Historical Research, New Delhi. Currently an independent researcher, she is the author of Political Economy of Production and Reproduction: Caste, Custom, and Community in North India, 2011; Contentious Marriages, Eloping Couples: Gender Caste and Patriarchy in Northern India, 2007; Colonial India and the Making of Empire Cinema: Image, Ideology and Identity, 2000 (Indian edition by SAGE, 2001); The Veiled Women: Shifting Gender Equations in Rural Haryana, 1880–1990, 1994; and Punjab Politics: The Role of Sir Chhotu Ram, 1984. She has also edited Understanding Politics and Society, 1910–97, 2010 and Gender Discrimination in Land Ownership, SAGE, Delhi, 2009. Other publications include research articles on politics, society, land and inheritance, popular culture and cultural practices, and gender both in colonial and contemporary India, in edited works and reputed national and international journals. She is currently engaged in exploring different aspects of masculinities both in its historical and present-day manifestations in northern India. Prem Chowdhry is also a well-known, nationally recognized artist who has exhibited her paintings in India and abroad.

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