Research Catalog

Title

Understanding women's land rights : gender discrimination in ownership / edited by Prem Chowdhry.

Publication

• New Delhi, India ; Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE, 2017.
• ©2017

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Additional Authors

Chowdhry, Prem

Description

xxii, 413 pages; 23 cm.

Summary

"[This book evaluates] existing state laws regarding land ownership. The varied forms of gender discrimination that exist between and within regions, communities, and caste groups are studied. Few women own land, and even fewer effectively control it. The book recommends ways to counter this inequality by challenging laws and sociocultural values that allow discrimination to persist."--

Series Statement

Land reforms in India ; volume 13

Uniform Title

Land reforms in India ; v. 13.

Subject

• Land tenure > India
• Women landowners > India
• Sex discrimination against women > India
• Land tenure > Law and legislation > India
• Land tenure
• Land tenure > Law and legislation
• Sex discrimination against women
• Women landowners
• India
• Land ownership
• Women's rights

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Foreword / Upma Chawdhry -- Editor's introduction: Persisting gender discrimination in land rights / Prem Chowdhry -- Andhra Pradesh : land rights and land access to women in Andhra Pradesh / E. Revathi -- Arunachal Pradesh : engendering tribal land rights for gendering the land : a case study among Apatani and Nyishi communities / Rimi Tadu -- Chhattisgarh : gender issues in landownership in Chattisgarh : existing land laws, policies, and practices / Ramesh Sharma -- Goa : women and land rights in the context of legal propertied equality in Goa / Ritu Dewan -- Gujarat : women empowerment through landownership rights : critical assessment of their status in Gujarat / Itishree Pattnaik -- Jammu and Kashmir : gendering the landownership question in Jammu and Kashmir / Abha Chauhan -- Jharkhand : understanding women and land rights in Jharkhand / M.N. Karna -- Maharashtra : land, land rights and women in Maharashtra / Ritu Dewan -- Mizoram : women's access and ownership of land : a case of Mizoram state in India / Saroj Arora -- Nagaland : gender and land relations in Nagaland : emerging issues / C. Sridhar, Saroj Arora, and Khunenchu Magh -- Rajasthan : persisting inequalities : gender and land rights in Rajasthan / Kanchan Mathur -- Sikkim : locating gender in land rights discourse in Sikkim / Sohel Firdos -- Tamil Nadu : women's land rights in the context of neo-liberal Tamil Nadu / Ranjani K. Murthy -- Uttarakhand : gender justice and law : a gender-specific study of landownership in Uttarakhand / Indu Pathak.

ISBN

• 9789386446312
• 9386446316
• 9789386446336 (canceled/invalid)
• 9386446332 (canceled/invalid)
• 9789386446329 (canceled/invalid)
• 9386446324 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2017012990

OCLC

• ocn984149252
• 984149252
• SCSB-9391767

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library