The book incorporates voices of women from margins, viz., women in prostitution, queer women, tribal women and minority women, in understanding gendered violence and sex-based discrimination. It attempts to address a range of issues such as dangers of Uniform Civil Code, debate in a communally charged climate, harassment at workplace and cultures of violence nurtured and legitimized through dress code, sex and job segregations. The discussion goes around ...
Panchayati Raj Institutions and Rural Development: Narratives on Inclusion of Excluded
The 73 Constitutional Amendment provided space for the first time to the invisible and excluded categories in the society to participate in the decentralized democratic institutions like Panchayati Raj, which works at the grassroots level for the development of these people and let alone the society at large. The papers presented in this volume review through narratives the micro-macro ground realities on a broad canvas of interdisciplinary approach. It also ...
