Domestic Violence Against Women in India

Contents: Foreword. Preface. I. Domestic Violence against women: concept, nature, extent and dimensions: 1. Introduction—Domestic Violence against women and role of PWDV Act, 2006/A.K. Singh and S.P. Pandey. 2. Deleqitmizing violence against women—some remarks/Rakesh Chandra. 3. Crime against women in India/Amar Pratap Chaudhari. 4. Global perspective of Domestic Violence against women/Nandita Kaushal. 5. Domestic Violence under Indian legal scenario/Ajai Singh. 6. Domestic Violence against women in India/D. Pulla Rao. 7. A Panorama of Domestic Violence Act, 2005/Rakesh Kumar Singh. 8. Domestic Violence against women: an overview/Amit Singh. 9. A critical review of the Domestic Violence/Parvez Ahmed Khan and Naveen Singh. 10. Domestic Violence: a retrospective of mythological context (An empirical rendezvous with classics)/Pralay Haldar. 11. Domestic Violence against women: an overview/Anoop Kumar Bhartiya. 12. Domestic Violence: emerging perspective/M.M. Verma. II. Protection of women from Domestic Violence Act: a critical review: 13. The protection of women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005: a critical analysis/C.P. Singh. 14. Domestic Violence against women/Abdul Majeed Mulla. 15. Crime against women and legislative protection in India/J.P. Srivastava. 16. Protection of women from Domestic Violence Act: an overview/Avinash Chandra. 17. Domestic Violence Act of India: inherently unequal/Vijeta Dua. 18. Protection of women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005—a critical evaluation/Preeti Misra and Jyoti Misra. 19. Violence against women/Reena Srivastava. 20. Women and reproductive rights/D.K. Singh. 21. Domestic violence against women and girls/Rajesh R. Modi. III. Domestic violence against women: consequences and impact: 22. Impact of domestic violence against women on forest conservation and sustainable livelihoods: a study of Sheopur district of Madhya Pradesh/S.P. Singh and P.K. Biswas. 23. Status of women in Indian society/Devendra Kumar Singh. 24. Trafficking of young women and children in India: emerging perspectives and remedial measures/Awadhesh Kumar Singh and Sonika Khanna. 25. Who starts? Who losts? A note on domestic violence against women in Kerala/Bindu Ramachandran. 26. Impact of television on domestic violence/S.P. Singh, D.K. Tripathi, J.P. Shukla and A. Singh. 27. Crime against women: a study of Dowry Act/A.K. Shukla. 28. Domestic violence in India: causes, consequences and intervention strategies/Atul Pratap Singh. 29. Domestic violence against women in Indian society: problems and prospects/R.N. Prasad. 30. Increasing trends of violence against women/D.K. Singh and Abhishek Singh. 31. Depletion of resources and violence against women: an anthropological observation/Samar Kumar Biswas and Somenath Bhattacharjee. Recommendations. Index.

“Domestic Violence against women is a wide spread problem. However, its actual extent is difficult to measure. It may be very much higher than that the reports indicate because many instances of Domestic Violence against women are not reported. The research studies and surveys conducted by individuals generally produce higher estimates of violence than official records. However, they are also assumed to underestimate the actual extent of Domestic Violence against women. For a variety of reasons, women may fail to report violence that takes place in the family. According to available statistics from around the world, about 33 per cent of the women have experienced violence in one form or the other in their intimate relationship at some point in their life. This is an average based on available national surveys across industrialized and developing countries published in the report of the World Health Organization in 1997. In India, the actual prevalence of Domestic Violence against women is scant. Against this view point present book throws light on various aspects and dimensions of Domestic Violence. The book consists of 31 chapters split into three sections. Section I, deals with concept, nature and dimensions of Domestic Violence. This section contains 12 chapters; Section II is concerned with Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act. This section contains 9 chapters and, Section III deals with Domestic Violence against women, consequences and impact. This section contains 10 chapters. At the end recommendations are given to minimize the Domestic Violence against women and also effective enforcement of Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act 2006. The recommendations will be helpful to planners, administrators, researchers and development activists for the successful implementation of the Act at the grass root level. This book will also provide and serve as a resource book in finding out the lacunae and further improvement in the PWDV Act, 2006.” (jacket)