Life Histories of Women Panchayat Sarpanches from Haryana, India
Life Histories of Women Panchayat Sarpanches from Haryana, India

Author: Kavita Chakravarty

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2017-06-23

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 1443873837

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This volume represents a collection of life histories of women who live in rural Haryana. It looks at the impact of the 73rd Amendment to India’s constitution, which introduced reservations in the political arena for women. The Panchayati Raj Act of 1992 reserved one third of all Sarpanch positions for women, and granted constitutional status to the Panchayat system, outlining its specific functions and jurisdiction. This book enhances existing scholarship on the impact of these changes in that it provides the opportunity for women Sarpanches from Haryana to speak for themselves and reflect upon their journey. Ten elected women Sarpanches share their stories about their lives, from childhood to adolescence to adulthood. Their life histories address the following questions: Who are these women who agreed to run for a reserved seat in the elections? What motivated them? Why were they asked to run? What barriers do they face? Do they feel they are making a difference? Indeed, these stories reflect the lived realities of the women impacted by the changes in legislation.

Panchayati Raj Institutions
Panchayati Raj Institutions

Author: S. Baluchamy

Publisher: Mittal Publications

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9788170999263

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Study with special reference to Dindigul District of Tamil Nadu, India.

Negotiating Privately for an Effective Role in Public Space
Negotiating Privately for an Effective Role in Public Space

Author: Hiranmayee Mishra

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2014-01-13

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 1443855855

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This book is the outcome of interdisciplinary research investigating female participation in politics in rural India. The participants were all rural and mostly illiterate women who dared to explore the public space by entering into grassroots political institutions as a result of the quota introduced in 1992. This ruling stipulated that ‘no less than one third of the seats’ in India’s rural political units, the Panchayats, were to be filled by women, and created a social revolution in the countryside of India. The book presents an interesting investigation into about how women representatives negotiated their new roles by converting the strong patriarchal set-up in India into a support system for their new endeavour. This is an interesting work on women in local political institutions, and reveals the gradual social and economic empowerment of women through gender quotas in politics.

Measuring Empowerment
Measuring Empowerment

Author: Deepa Narayan-Parker

Publisher: World Bank Publications

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 0821360574

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Large-scale poverty reduction depends on the effective empowerment of poor people themselves. This publication sets out a conceptual framework that can be used to monitor and evaluate empowerment programmes, based on papers written by practitioners and researchers in a wide variety of fields, including economics and political science, sociology and psychology, anthropology and demography. These papers draw on research and practical experience at different levels, from households to communities to nations and in various regions of the world.