In Women of Honour, Karin Polit gives an ethnographic account of how relationships are shaped among the Dalit people of Chamoli, Utttarakhand. Through thick descriptions of everyday life-conversations, friendship, dress, work-the author shows that gender identity is a process. Questioning the assumption that Indian women are mute and powerless, she argues that the people of Chamoli-women and men-see themselves as part of an agentive unity. These networks of ...
