How every day politics was being played and negotiated by different social groups remained an unexplored question. Voices of the subaltern groups remained submerged in most of the analysis of the functioning of the democratic institutions at local level. Thus mainstream social analysts failed to capture the Indian rural society ridden with caste, class and gender differentiations and hierarchies. This was largely a situation in sociological literature on Panchayati Raj system in India also.
Gender question posits a critical challenge to our notions of power, participation, consent and legitimacy. Gender question has also assumed sociological significance in the functioning of the Panchayati Raj systems in last few decades. This problematique is not one that relates to only additive or incremental change in rural social fabric, but rather it looks into modalities, i.e. how it brings about social change and transformation. This cognitive shift has also brought into limelight the structural and also cultural bottlenecks hampering the women and their movement for liberal democratic change.
The central theme of this book is the role of tribal women leaders in Gram Panchayats increased due to reservation of seats as a result of 73rd amendment to the constitution. This book also deals with the role of scheduled tribe women leadership in panchayat, particularly in the light of 73rd constitutional amendment. The main objective of the study is to evaluate socio economic and political implications. It also provides socio-economic profile of leaders in panchayats, level of their awareness, their achievements and expectations. The book should prove useful for those interested in gender issues, public administrators, planners and policy makers, scholars of sociology, political science and NGOs.
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