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The name Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur means many things to many people. To the visionaries of modern India, it symbolised a dream come true: the first world-class technical institute of a newly independent India.
To generations of students and teachers who have lived and studied at the Institute, spent years in its dynamic classrooms and devoted years of research to its laboratories and research centres, it is alma mater beyond par. It is a symbol of ...
This book deals with the most important issues of violence and exploitation of women in Indian society. The violence against women in such forms as suicide, bride-burning, rape, abduction and kidnapping , wife battering etc. as also the eve teasing, molestation, bigamy, fraudulent marriages, adultery and enticement of married women, harassment of women at place of work, female child abuse and abuse of elderly female etc. has increased manyfold. Such electronic ...
This book deals with the most important issues of changing status and emerging problems of women in Indian society. The status of Indian women has undergone change with more and more women, particularly in urban India, becoming economically independent. This has made them more mobile in various occupations. But the question of gender equality is still the main concern in India as majority of the rural Indian women remain uneducated or less educated and also ...
This book focuses on kinship family and marriage. Capitalist patriarchy is said to be responsible for the low status of women in family and kinship. Though the education and employment of women have raised their status, the problems in their family like that of role conflict and singlehood have increased. The age at marriage has increased and the values have undergone many changes. With the change in their status, some of the corresponding roles are also changing ...