‘Good Women do not Inherit Land'

Politics of Land and Gender in India

Nitya Rao (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

370 Seiten

2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-65298-6 (ISBN)

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Land for the adivasi Santal women in Dumka, Jharkhand stands for security, social position and identity, and in this men have a distinct advantage. The time period covered is from historic times to the present. The role of government administrative bodies, NGOs and political leaders is also emphasized.

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Nitya Rao is Senior Lecturer, School of Development Studies, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.

1. Introduction 2. A Personal Journey 3. Faces of Poverty: The Villages Profiled 4. Reinventing Tradition: Agrarian Movements in History 5. Land as a Productive Resource 6. Locating Identities 7. Women’s Claims to Land 8. Custom and Courts: Bargaining with Modernity 9. Development Interventions: Can One Size fit all? 10. Conclusions
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	22.08.2024
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	300 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-032-65298-5 / 1032652985
ISBN-13	978-1-032-65298-6 / 9781032652986
Zustand	Neuware