Situating Indian Women
Contents: Preface. 1. Introduction/A.N. Panda. 2. Situating Indian women in proper perspective: a framework for analysis/A.N. Panda. 3. Status of women in ancient India/J.N. Sharma. 4. Women in India, down the ages/D.K. Padhi. 5. Working women and law in India/H.N. Pradhan. 6. Status of women in rural India and their role in rural development/Gautam Vir. 7. Empowerment of rural women through development: need for a changing perspective in India/Ashutosh Pandey and Archana Pandey. 8. Women and development: innovative strategies/Sushma Yadav. 9. National policy for the empowerment of women 2001--an appraisal/M.V.S. Koteswar Rao ad B.P.C. Bose. 10. Strategies for empowerment of women in India--a review/K. Chandra Kumar. 11. Women empowerment: new initiatives in voluntary action/V. Divya Thejo Murthy. 12. Empowerment of Indian women: the case of self help groups in Andhra Pradesh/M. Bapuji and Md. Mastanvali. 13. Empowerment through political participation/A.D. Mishra. 14. Political participation of women in local administration in India and globalization/Rajendra Bharti. 15. Women and political participation in India/Sweta Mishra. 16. Voting participation of women in India: a case study of Uttaranchal with special reference to Garhwal/M.M.S. Negi. 17. Political participation of women leaders: a case study in Orissa/Gayatri Mishra and A. N. Panda. 18. The problems of working women in India/Ashu Pasricha. 19. Uniform civil code and gender justice: a critical perspective/Parvathy A.A. 20. Women and politics of peace process in North-East India/Dolly Phukon. 21. Prospects for Indian women/A.N. Panda. Selected Bibliography. Contributors.
"In spite of many reform movements launched by different social reformers during different periods and enactment of innumerable legislations aiming at improving the conditions of women the lot of women in India is yet to be uplifted to the desirable extent. Though the Indian constitution makes provisions for establishing equality between men and women and provides for affirmative actions in favour of women to rectify their adverse position, the fate of women in India continues to be in a bad shape and its in imperative to take additional steps for achieving the goal of operational equality between men and women in India.
All these factors necessitate discussing and understanding the different issues related to women for appreciating the problems of women in India. The present volume is a modest attempt in that direction.
The present volume is the result of the untiring efforts of some scholarly persons who are genuinely interested in studying and analyzing women issues. It is believed that the articles included in this book will throw some lights on different aspects related to women and be helpful in grasping the problems of women to some extent." (jacket)
