Women Among Marginalised Communities Of India: Issues and Challenges

Contents: Foreword. Introduction. 1. Role of Women among Nomadic and Denotified Tribes: Issues and Challenges/Malli Gandhi. 2. Power, Marginalisation and Tribal Women: The Northeast Perspective/M.C. Behera. 3. Empowerment of Savara Tribal Women among the Marginalized communities of India: An Ethnographic profile/M. Gnana Selvin Raj. 4. Victims of State Frame: Women Prisoners from the Marginalised Communities of India/Tinku Paul. 5. The Feminine Marginalized: An Indian Eco-Philosophical Analysis/John Peter Vallabadoss. 6. Digital Empowerment or Gender Neutralisation/Yazali Josephine. 7. Gender Justice: Challenges and Responses/Inigo Joachim. 8. The Role of Elected Women Representatives in Panchayat Raj Institution in India: A Study on Capacity Building and Empowerment Perspective/J. Rani Ratna Prabha and Sudam Tandi. 9. Social Exclusion and Education of Marginalized Girls/Wesly Kumar V S J and S. Ramudu. 10. The Me too Movement that Never is: Political Economy of the Eclipse of the Sexual Exploitation of the Dalit and Tribal Women/Jose Maliekal. 11. Feminism Matter(s) in Science –Reflections on the Marginalization of Women in the World of Science/S. Stephen Jayard. 12. Politicization of the Feminine in Identity Politics and Divinization of the Subaltern Feminine as Counter-Narrative/James Ponniah. 13. Challenges of Education of Tribal Women in India/Thomas K. J. 14. Women among the Marginalized Communities of India: Issues and Challenges/S. Srikanta Swamy. 15. Women among Marginalized Communities of India: Issues and Challenges/Atola Longkumer. 16. Women of Marginalized Communities: Violence and Violations/Julie George. 17. Women in the Jewish Community of Biblical Era: Issues and Challenges/Savarirayan. 18. Jesus and the Syrophoenician Woman in Mark 7: 24-30 A Paradigm for socio-religious affirmation/Adaikalasamy and Wilson S.V.D. 19. Can you hear me please?: Media and Empowering the Marginalised Women of India/S. Janet Mary. 20. Are The Voices Heard: Status of Low Caste Women in Religions/G. Lazar. 21. Economic Policy: Change in the Socio-Economic Conditions of Marginalised Groups (SC/ST) in Independent India. Index. 

The research papers presented in this volume have emerged from the recent experience of organized attempts to brutally suppress Adivasi/Dalit/Minority ferment intersecting with organized attempts at communal polarization and promotion of communal hatred. Recurrent practices of 'dishonouring' women in the name of community honour, and the virulent attacks on inter-faith marriages, do indeed appear to share features in common with violence against inter-caste marriages, albeit on a stridently political and communal register. The adverse effects of politicization of religion on the advance of equality for women, and contemporary articulations of women's rights from within minority communities, are all important issues dealt in this volume. The voices of these women of India cannot be ignored, for they are the ones who will chart the course of India's future. At once vigorously analytical and vividly written, Women among Marginalised Communities of India: Issues and Challenges is a must-read for anyone interested in safe-guarding India's five thousand years of history. The facts revealed in this volume will invite many more debates among the scholars and policy makers. (jacket)