Gender Discrimination in Land Ownership

1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-81-7829-942-6
Verlag: Sage Publications India

Buch, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 519 g

Reihe: Land Reforms in India series

This edited volume analyzes the different degrees of discrimination meted out to women by the country's inheritance laws and the corresponding customary practices in tribal societies. It also exposes the current socio-legal structure in the country, which systematically denies women the accessibility to and ownership of productive resources.

Gender Discrimination in Land Ownership is XIth in the series 'Land Reforms in India', initiated by the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie. The volume contains 14 well-researched chapters through which distinguished scholars look into the discrimination faced by women in various states of India. Highlighting the fact that different regions subject women to varied forms of discrimination, these chapters reveal that these emanate from various customs and practices, Shastric prescriptions and the Muslim personal laws (Shariat) which were crystallized during the British regime and further consolidated in the post-colonial period through various union, state and concurrent laws.

Apart from describing the discrimination that women are subjected to in terms of legal rights, the collection also proposes ways to counter the same and encourages debate on the current Indian socio-legal system. With its two-pronged concern—analysis of reform laws and their impact on gender—this book will be of interest to academics in fields such as development economics, land laws, gender/women studies and sociology, as well as to policy-makers and administrators.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chowdhry, Prem

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Dienste, Soziale Organisationen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword - Rudhra Gangadharan and Padamvir Singh

A Note from the Co-ordinator Yatendra Kumar
Editor's Introduction: Understanding Land Rights of Women - Prem Chowdhry

Assam - M Parwez

Marginalization of Women: Inheritance in Assam

Bihar - Hetukar Jha
Need of an Ideological Struggle: Society and Law in Bihar

Haryana - Raj Mohini Sethi
Gendered Spaces: Agrarian Economy of Haryana

Himachal Pradesh - Raj Mohini Sethi
Customary Practices, Law and Gender in Himachal Pradesh

Karnataka - Jennifer Brown, Kripa Ananthpur, Renee Giovarelli

Addressing Legal Rights in Karnataka
Kerala - Praveena Kodoth
Residual Farmers on Household Land? Women and Second Generation Concerns of Regulation in Kerala

Madhya Pradesh - M Rajivlochan and Meeta Rajivlochan

Gendering Land Reforms in Madhya Pradesh

Manipur - Ksh Bimola Devi and Saroj Arora
Women and Inheritance Practices in Manipur Ksh

Meghalaya - M N Karna
Tribal Areas of Meghalaya: Land Ownership of Women
Orissa - Asha Hans, Padmaja Mishra and Amrita Mishra Patel

Need for a Paradigm Shift: Justice and Equality for Women in Orissa

Puducherry (Pondicherry)(Union Territory) - N Rajasekhar
Women's Entitlement and Legal Position in Puducherry (Pondicherry)

Punjab - Raj Mohini Sethi
Gender and Reform in Punjab
Uttar Pradesh - Saroj Arora and LC Singhi

Women's Access and Rights to Land in Uttar Pradesh

West Bengal - Jennifer Brown and Sujata Das Chowdhury
Analyzing Women's Rights: A Field Study from West Bengal

Über Autor(innen)

Chowdhry, Prem
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.