‘Good Women do not Inherit Land'

Politics of Land and Gender in India

Nitya Rao (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

370 Seiten

2017
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-50192-8 (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	09.10.2017
Zusatzinfo	39 Tables, black and white; 6 Line drawings, black and white; 11 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Gewicht	521 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
ISBN-10	1-138-50192-1 / 1138501921
ISBN-13	978-1-138-50192-8 / 9781138501928
Zustand	Neuware