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"The present work in three volumes, contains authoritative information on the following topics: Crime against Women; Status of Indian Women; Bride-Burning; Incidence of Violence; Modern Indian Women; Physical Violence; Violence against Women; Violence and insecurity; Women in Nature; Women in Islam; Society Towards Women; Dowry Death in India; Time of Transition; Divorce and family tension; Battles to Fight; Dowry Related Violence; The Institution of ...
Programmes for women and children implemented by the Department of Human Resource Development, though not exclusively for SC/ST, are primarily directed towards the most disadvantaged groups of population like scheduled castes and scheduled tribes and other economically backward classes living in backward rural, tribal and urban slum areas. Efforts are made to encourage more voluntary organisations to come forth with proposals to start welfare programmes in tribal ...
"The provisions of the constitution of India granting equality to women in various spheres creates the legal framework within which the Department of Women and Child Development functions for women's development. At the same time, the paradigms for social development have been swiftly changing with greater attention to gender issues at the global and national levels. The Government of India has continuously been formulating strategies and initiating ...
"What do we know about women's lives on the eve of this transformation? There are, of course, the records of the reformers but these are tainted by polemics. Constructing a clear picture of the lives of women before colonial rule is difficult, although recent feminist scholarship has added a great deal to our view of the past. The pre-British records include an abundance of prescriptive texts but fewer documents that shed light on the actual lives of women. ...