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.

Through The Ages History & Civics class 6
Through The Ages History & Civics class 6

Author: TAPATI DAS GUPTA

Publisher: S. Chand Publishing

Published:

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9352534158

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Through The Ages for classes 6 to 8 follows the latest syllabus guidelines of Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations. With an attractive layout and interesting features and activities, the books have been designed to make studying history and civics enjoyable for the students.

The Performance of Tribal Sarpanches in Andhra Pradesh
The Performance of Tribal Sarpanches in Andhra Pradesh

Author: Komuraiah Palamakula

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2018-12-19

Total Pages: 151

ISBN-13: 1527523780

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The local administration system in India has a vast history, extending from the ancient and medieval periods today. The local government system was, however, formally launched in 1882 by Lord Rippon, and is popularly known as Magna Carta. Article 40 of the Indian constitution states the directive principles of state policy and the importance of local government administration to the functioning of Indian democracy. The government of India has appointed several committees to focus on the functioning and restructuring of Panchayat Raj bodies, including the 73rd Constitutional Amendment Act and the Burya committee recommendations, which gave importance to political reservation for the Scheduled Tribes in Panchayat Raj bodies. The PESA Act paved the way for the political empowerment of Scheduled Tribes in Panchayat raj systems, allowing them the opportunity to utilise various politico-administrative powers and functions. This book explores the role and performance of Scheduled Tribe Sarpanches in Panchayat Raj local bodies in the Telangana region of Andhra Pradesh. It sheds light on the development of, and welfare activities undertaken by, the Sarpanches. Further, this book also reveals the utilization of powers, functions and grants by the Tribal Sarpanches, giving a vivid picture of the decision-making style of Scheduled Tribal Sarpanches at the grassroots level of the Panchayat Raj system.

Claiming the State
Claiming the State

Author: Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2018-08-16

Total Pages: 341

ISBN-13: 1108187978

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Citizens around the world look to the state for social welfare provision, but often struggle to access essential services in health, education, and social security. This book investigates the everyday practices through which citizens of the world's largest democracy make claims on the state, asking whether, how, and why they engage public officials in the pursuit of social welfare. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in rural India, Kruks-Wisner demonstrates that claim-making is possible in settings (poor and remote) and among people (the lower classes and castes) where much democratic theory would be unlikely to predict it. Examining the conditions that foster and inhibit citizen action, she finds that greater social and spatial exposure - made possible when individuals traverse boundaries of caste, neighborhood, or village - builds citizens' political knowledge, expectations, and linkages to the state, and is associated with higher levels and broader repertoires of claim-making.

Bhārata meṃ phāsijma kā ubhāra
Bhārata meṃ phāsijma kā ubhāra

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Publisher: Socio Legal Information Cent

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 8189479571

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Contributed articles on the rise of fascism in India and also report of the Independent People's Tribunal on the Rise of Fascist Forces and the Attack on the Secular State, March 20-22, 2007.

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.

Social Harmony
Social Harmony

Author: Narendra Modi

Publisher: Prabhat Prakashan

Published: 2015-01-01

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 9350489805

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Collection of articles and lectures of chief minister of Gujarat, India; some previously published.

The Veiled Women
The Veiled Women

Author: Prem Chowdhry

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 492

ISBN-13:

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The Veiled Women: Shifting Gender Equations in Rural Haryana, 1880-1990, draws on a large range of popular sources such as folk songs, oral traditions and interviews as well as statistical data and archival material to explore certain major issues regarding the position of women in rural Haryana in north India. Covering a period of a hundred years, the author explores the participation of women, specially among the landholding classes, in the process of production and reproduction; the exclusion of women from the control of resources; the consequences of the new agricultural technologies on women and their work; the resistence of patriarchal society to a change in the legal position of women; the upholding of the customary practices relating to marriage and property by the colonial and the post colonial state; and lastly the complicity of women themselves in the reconstruction of patriarchy.