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Life Histories of Women Panchayat Sarpanches from Haryana, India

From the Margins to the Center

By: Kavita Chakravarty,Pareena Lawrence

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Life Histories of Women Panchayat Sarpanches from Haryana, India

From the Margins to the Center

By: Kavita Chakravarty,Pareena Lawrence

This volume represents a collection of life histories of women who live in rural Haryana. It looks at the impact of the 73rd Amendment to India’s constitution, which introduced reservations in the political arena for women. The Panchayati Raj Act of 1992 reserved one third of all Sarpanch positions for women, and granted constitutional status to the Panchayat system, outlining its specific functions and jurisdiction. This book enhances existing scholarship on the impact of these changes in that it provides the opportunity for women Sarpanches from Haryana to speak for themselves and reflect upon their journey. Ten elected women Sarpanches share their stories about their lives, from childhood to adolescence to adulthood. Their life histories address the following questions: Who are these women who agreed to run for a reserved seat in the elections? What motivated them? Why were they asked to run? What barriers do they face? Do they feel they are making a difference? Indeed, these stories reflect the lived realities of the women impacted by the changes in legislation.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1443873837

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9781443873833

Violent Belongings

Partition, Gender, and National Culture in Postcolonial India

By: Kavita Daiya

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Violent Belongings

Partition, Gender, and National Culture in Postcolonial India

By: Kavita Daiya

Violent Belongings examines transnational South Asian culture from 1947 onwards in order to offer a new, historical account of how gender and ethnicity came to determine who belonged, and how, in the postcolonial Indian nation.

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Temple University Press

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159213744X

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9781592137442

Unclaimed Harvest

An Oral History of the Tebhaga Women's Movement

By: Kavita Panjabi

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An Oral History of the Tebhaga Women's Movement

By: Kavita Panjabi

1943: As the British Empire draws to a close, the state of Bengal is just emerging from the grip of famine. Exploited mercilessly by feudal landlords, landless peasants rise in protest and launch a movement in 1946 to retain two-thirds of the grain they harvest - Tebhaga. More than 50,000 women participated in this movement: one whose history and tragic end - in the crossfire between state violence and revolutionary armed struggle - became a legend in its time. Yet in the written history of Tebhaga, the full-fledged women's movement that they forged has never featured. In this authoritative study, based on interviews and women's memories, Kavita Panjabi sets the balance right with rare sensitivity and grace. Using critical insights garnered from oral history and memory studies, Panjabi raises questions that neither social history nor left historiography ask. In doing so, she claims the past for a feminist vision of radical social change. This account of the transformation of the struggle is unique in feminist scholarship movements.

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Zubaan

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9385932500

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9789385932502

Life Histories of Women Panchayat Sarpanches from Haryana, India

From the Margins to the Center

By: Kavita Chakravarty,Pareena Lawrence

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From the Margins to the Center

By: Kavita Chakravarty,Pareena Lawrence

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Life Histories of Women Panchayat Sarpanches from Haryana, India

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Life Histories of Women Panchayat Sarpanches from Haryana, India

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