Women In State Politics In India

Author : Pam Rajput
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000851613
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women in State Politics in India written by Pam Rajput and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dynamics of Indian politics is reflected in the flexible and fluctuating relations between the centre and the states as well as in the equations within the multiparty political system. This book is one of the first to explore the participation of women in state politics in India and how women navigate the dynamic spaces and hierarchies of the Indian political system. With the help of in-depth studies of 16 states in India, it analyses the gender profile of political parties and legislative bodies in these states; the question of women’s representation which is miniscule in legislative assemblies and women voters and their voting choices. It also explores the roadblocks and barriers they face, along with a study of women’s participation in informal politics. The chapters in this book underline the need for women’s active participation both inside and outside the party system to make democracy more robust and meaningful. Topical, rich in empirical data, this book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of Indian politics, gender studies, political science, sociology, public administration, and South Asia studies.

Author : Bhawana Jharta
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Politics in India written by Bhawana Jharta and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mytheli Sreenivas
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295748850
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India written by Mytheli Sreenivas and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2021-05-03 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295748856 Beginning in the late nineteenth century, India played a pivotal role in global conversations about population and reproduction. In Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India, Mytheli Sreenivas demonstrates how colonial administrators, postcolonial development experts, nationalists, eugenicists, feminists, and family planners all aimed to reform reproduction to transform both individual bodies and the body politic. Across the political spectrum, people insisted that regulating reproduction was necessary and that limiting the population was essential to economic development. This book investigates the often devastating implications of this logic, which demonized some women’s reproduction as the cause of national and planetary catastrophe. To tell this story, Sreenivas explores debates about marriage, family, and contraception. She also demonstrates how concerns about reproduction surfaced within a range of political questions—about poverty and crises of subsistence, migration and claims of national sovereignty, normative heterosexuality and drives for economic development. Locating India at the center of transnational historical change, this book suggests that Indian developments produced the very grounds over which reproduction was called into question in the modern world. The open-access edition of Reproductive Politics and the Making of Modern India is freely available thanks to the TOME initiative and the generous support of The Ohio State University Libraries.

Author : Niroja Sinhā
Publisher : Gyan Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empowerment of Women Through Political Participation written by Niroja Sinhā and published by Gyan Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Indian democracy is more than 50 years old low yet ideals of democracy are far from destination specially for women in India. Women play a marginal role in politics. Their political participation is almost invisible, however, importance of women s political participation for a viable democratic polity is being increasing realized in all the corners of the world, women section of society almost form help of the population in any country and to think of a democratic government without their participation is unthinkable. To empower them socially, economically, educationally and politically will require there decision making capabilities. The present study has been conducted in the regional context of composite Bihar. The study seriously examines and analyses that how with lowest female literacy, poverty, poor health, socio-economic and educational status, women of Bihar can play a vital role in state and national politics. The quality of the study have been also examine at all India level and the results are stunning. The study will be of great value to political students, research school are in particular and to all who have interest in women empowerment and their political participation.

Author : Rajeswari Sunder Rajan
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822330486
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Scandal of the State written by Rajeswari Sunder Rajan and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2003-04-09 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women in custody -- Women in law -- Killing women.

Author : Susheela Kaushik
Publisher : Vikas Publishing House Private
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's Participation in Politics written by Susheela Kaushik and published by Vikas Publishing House Private. This book was released on 1993 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selection from the papers presented at the first four national conferences of the Indian Association for Women's Studies.

Author : Pitam Singh
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9788180690198
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women Legislators in Indian Politics written by Pitam Singh and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 2003 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It Is A Longitudinal Study Of Women Legislators In U.P. From 1952 To 2002. Seeks To Analyse Their Role Both In The Legislators And The Party Organisation. Main Areas Concerned Are Their Socio-Economic Porofiles, The Routes They Took To Reach Their Position, Their Performance, The Kind Of Issues Raised And The Problems Faced By Them.

Author : Shirin M. Rai
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199093857
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Performing Representation written by Shirin M. Rai and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven decades after India’s independence women members occupy 1 in 10 seats in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of the Indian Parliament. In analysing women’s limited presence in the Indian Parliament, Performing Representation breaks new ground in scholarship on gender and politics. It explores the possibilities and limits of parliamentary democracy and the participation of women in its institutional performances. This book offers new insights into the gendered nature of the performance, aesthetics, and norms of parliamentary life through an examination of electoral data, legislative debates, and life stories of women MPs. The authors avoid both the framing of women MPs either simply as challengers of masculinized institutional politics or only as docile actors in a gendered institution. Making a strong case for taking parliamentary politics seriously in these times of populism, the book raises critical questions about the politics of difference, claim-making, representation, and intersectionality and addresses these as part of global feminist debates on the importance of the women’s representation in political institutions.

Author : S. Anandhi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351797190
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dalit Women written by S. Anandhi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: We ask you to rethink: Different Dalit women and their subaltern politics -- Part I Imagining a new Dalit women's politics -- 1 Foreword: Dalits, Dalit women and the Indian State -- 2 For another difference: Agency, representation and Dalit women in contemporary India -- Part II Dalit women's conceptualizations of caste difference and their means of collectivization -- 3 Gendered negotiations of caste identity: Dalit women's activism in rural Tamil Nadu -- 4 Liberation panthers and pantheresses? Gender and Dalit party politics in South India -- 5 Microcredit self-help groups and Dalit women: Overcoming or essentializing caste difference? -- Part III A broken empowerment? Are women still trapped by caste and patriarchy? -- 6 Dalit women, rape and the revitalisation of patriarchy? -- 7 Different Dalit women speak differently: Unravelling, through an intersectional lens, narratives of agency and activism from everyday life in rural Uttar Pradesh -- 8 Subsidising capitalism and male labour: The scandal of unfree Dalit female labour relations -- Part IV Religion as Dalit political practice -- 9 Transformation and the suffering subject: Caste-class and gender in slum Pentecostal discourse -- 10 Improper politics: The praxis of subalterns in Chennai -- Afterword: The burden of caste: Scholarship, democratic movements and activism

Author : Kanchan Chandra
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 131659212X
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democratic Dynasties written by Kanchan Chandra and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-28 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dynastic politics, usually presumed to be the antithesis of democracy, is a routine aspect of politics in many modern democracies. This book introduces a new theoretical perspective on dynasticism in democracies, using original data on twenty-first-century Indian parliaments. It argues that the roots of dynastic politics lie at least in part in modern democratic institutions - states and parties - which give political families a leg-up in the electoral process. It also proposes a rethinking of the view that dynastic politics is a violation of democracy, showing that it can also reinforce some aspects of democracy while violating others. Finally, this book suggests that both reinforcement and violation are the products, not of some property intrinsic to political dynasties, but of the institutional environment from which those dynasties emerge.