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Insights and Interventions
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 193

Insights and Interventions

Uma Chakravarti, feminist historian, teacher, and democratic rights' activist, has inspired generations of teachers, students and friends. This volume, including contributions from a handful of those who share her concerns, is a tribute to her energy, commitment and perseverance in pursuing her ideas and dreams. Is it possible to extend interventions from the classroom to the community? How do we strive towards a more integrated vision and praxis without falling into the trap of uniformity? Delving into texts ranging from the Rigveda to contemporary Dalit literature, and using diverse analytical strategies to understand present-day situations and experiences, the contributors offer insights, share concerns, and uncertainties through their essays and narratives. The themes addressed include issues of caste, nationalism, gendered identities, communalization, sexualities, socio-political relationships in all their complexities and the modes of transmission of ancient texts. The contributors include scholars/teachers who, like Uma, attempt to bridge the worlds of academics and activism, as well as young researchers who share her enthusiasm for ancient Indian history.

Everyday Lives, Everyday Histories
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 368

Everyday Lives, Everyday Histories

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Gendering Caste Through a Feminist Lens
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 210

Gendering Caste Through a Feminist Lens

Examining the crucial linkages between caste and gender, undertaken, perhaps, for the first time, Uma Chakravarti unmasks the mystique of consensus in the workings of the caste system to reveal the underlying violence and coercion that perpetuate a severely hierarchical and unequal society. The subordination of women and the control of female sexuality are crucial to the maintenance of the caste system, creating what feminist scholars have termed brahmanical patriarchy. She discusses the range of patriarchal practices within the larger framework of sexuality, labour and access to material resources, and also focuses on the centrality of endogamous marriages that maintain the system. Erudite yet accessible, this book enables the reader to understand the interface of gender and caste and to participate in its critical analysis.

Fault Lines of History
  • Language: en

Fault Lines of History

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2017-01-17
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  • Publisher: Zubaan

The Sexual Violence and Impunity in South Asia research project (coordinated by Zubaan and supported by the International Development Research Centre) brings together, for the first time in the region, a vast body of knowledge on this important – yet silenced – subject. Six country volumes (one each on Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and two on India) comprising over fifty research papers and two book-length studies detail the histories of sexual violence and look at the systemic, institutional, societal, individual and community structures that work together to perpetuate impunity for perpetrators. This volume, the second on India, addresses the question of state impunity, sugge...

Rewriting History
  • Language: en

Rewriting History

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013
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  • Publisher: Zubaan

Christian convert feminist from Maharashtra.

Gendering Caste
  • Language: en

Gendering Caste

The continuous demand for Gendering Caste: Through a Feminist Lens (2003) led to this revised edition which analyses the recent socio-economic and political changes that have taken place. Caste-based marriage and control over women's sexuality have been crucial for the continuation of the caste system in India. Thus, caste and gender are linked. Brutal reprisals have followed when dalits and women have tried to challenge caste-based marriage and inequality which allots strict rules of conduct for women and all dalits. Maithreyi Krishnaraj, the Series Editor, highlights the author’s discussion on the new ways in which caste violence targets women and on the changes within the family—immed...

The Social Dimensions of Early Buddhism
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 264

The Social Dimensions of Early Buddhism

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1996
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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From Myths to Markets
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 436

From Myths to Markets

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1999
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Collection of papers presented at a seminar held in 1993.

Men, Women and Beasts
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 52

Men, Women and Beasts

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1992
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Conceptualising Brahmanical Patriarchy in Early India
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 32

Conceptualising Brahmanical Patriarchy in Early India

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1993
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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