Indigenous Heroines

Indigenous Heroines
Author: Alma Grace Barla
Publisher:
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2015
Genre: Indigenous women
ISBN: 9788792786616

Tribal Women in India

Tribal Women in India
Author: S. N. Tripathy
Publisher:
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2002
Genre: Ethnology
ISBN:

With special reference to Orissa State.

Tribal Women

Tribal Women
Author: Shyam Nandan Chaudhary
Publisher:
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2015
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

Papers presented at the two days National Seminar entitled "Tribal Women: Status, Challenges, and Possibilities" organized by Tribal Research and Development Institute, Bhopal in March 2013.

Christianity and Politics in Tribal India

Christianity and Politics in Tribal India
Author: G. Kanato Chophy
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Total Pages: 500
Release: 2021-11-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1438485832

Through an ethnohistorical study of the Nagas—a congeries of tribes inhabiting the Indo-Myanmar frontier—this book explores an unusually interesting region of India that is all too often seen as peripheral. G. Kanato Chophy provides a distinct vantage point for understanding the Nagas in relation to colonialism, missionary encounters, identity politics, and cultural change, all seamlessly woven around American Baptist mission history in this region. The book also analyses India's cacophonous postindependence democracy in order to delineate multifaith issues, multiculturalism, and ethnicity-based political movements. Within the West, episodic memories of the "Great Awakening," a significant landmark in the history of Protestantism, have faded into archival records. But among the Nagas of the Indo-Myanmar highlands, Baptist Christianity persists as the dominant religion, influencing the daily lives of nearly three million people. Focusing variously on evangelical faith, missionary zeal, ethnic identities, political struggle, and complex culture wars, Christianity and Politics in Tribal India is an original and major study of how Protestant missions changed the history and destiny of a tribal community in one of the unlikeliest regions of South Asia.

We Were Adivasis

We Were Adivasis
Author: Megan Moodie
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2015-08-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 022625318X

In We Were Adivasis, anthropologist Megan Moodie examines the Indian state’s relationship to “Scheduled Tribes,” or adivasis—historically oppressed groups that are now entitled to affirmative action quotas in educational and political institutions. Through a deep ethnography of the Dhanka in Jaipur, Moodie brings readers inside the creative imaginative work of these long-marginalized tribal communities. She shows how they must simultaneously affirm and refute their tribal status on a range of levels, from domestic interactions to historical representation, by relegating their status to the past: we were adivasis. Moodie takes readers to a diversity of settings, including households, tribal council meetings, and wedding festivals, to reveal the aspirations that are expressed in each. Crucially, she demonstrates how such aspiration and identity-building are strongly gendered, requiring different dispositions required of men and women in the pursuit of collective social uplift. The Dhanka strategy for occupying the role of adivasi in urban India comes at a cost: young women must relinquish dreams of education and employment in favor of community-sanctioned marriage and domestic life. Ultimately, We Were Adivasis explores how such groups negotiate their pasts to articulate different visions of a yet uncertain future in the increasingly liberalized world.

Handbook of Research on New Dimensions of Gender Mainstreaming and Women Empowerment

Handbook of Research on New Dimensions of Gender Mainstreaming and Women Empowerment
Author: Kuruvilla, Moly
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 610
Release: 2020-06-12
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1799828212

Globally, women are facing social, economic, and cultural barriers impeding their autonomy and agency. Accelerated women empowerment programs often fail to attain their targets as envisaged by the policymakers due to a variety of reasons, with the most prominent being the deep-rooted cultural norms ingrained within society. In the era of globalization, empowerment of women demands new approaches and strategies that encourage the mainstreaming of gender equality as a societal norm. The Handbook of Research on New Dimensions of Gender Mainstreaming and Women Empowerment is a critical scholarly publication that examines global gender issues and new strategies for the promotion of women empowerment and gender mainstreaming in various spheres of women’s lives, including education and ICT, economic participation, health and sexuality, mental health, aging, law and judiciary, leadership, and decision making. It provides a comprehensive coverage of all major gender issues with novel ideas on gender mainstreaming being contributed by men and women authors from multidisciplinary backgrounds. Gender perspective and intersectional approach in the discourses make this handbook a unique contribution to the scholarship of social sciences and humanities. The book provides new theoretical inputs and practical directions to academicians, sociologists, social workers, psychologists, managers, lawyers, policy makers, and government officials in their efforts at gender mainstreaming. With a wide range of conceptual richness, this handbook is an excellent reference guide to students and researchers in programs pertaining to gender/women's studies, cultural studies, economics, sociology, social work, medicine, law, and management.

Tribal Women in Jharkhand

Tribal Women in Jharkhand
Author: Dr Bhavna Verma
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2015-07-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9781926488110

Jharkhand is one of the eastern states in India having largest tribal population. Garhwa district of Jharkhand is one among the twenty four districts in the state having sizeable tribal population and large scheduled area. The tribal communities in the district represent different levels of socio-economic development. Though both Central and State Governments have implemented number of programmes for the development of tribal, they have not yet reached the expected level of development. Tribal women in Jharkhand have to go a long way to attain the empowerment in real sense that is in political, economic, social and cultural field. In rural areas, tribal women are generally not taken seriously to change their socio economic status, tribal women need development not welfare, empowerment not assistance, entitlement not assistance and social and gender justice. The present study explores whether tribal women are enjoying their rights or not. The study also examines the steps taken by to improve the education and health status of the tribal women in general and in particular to meet the challenges of the world. The book will be very useful to the researcher, policy makers, students of women's studies, political science and sociology and social wor

Women, Gender and Everyday Social Transformation in India

Women, Gender and Everyday Social Transformation in India
Author: Kenneth Bo Nielsen
Publisher: Anthem Press
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2014-08-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1783082690

The pace of socioeconomic transformation in India over the past two and a half decades has been formidable. This volume sheds light on how these transformations have played out at the level of everyday life to influence the lives of Indian women, and gender relations more broadly. Through ethnographically grounded case studies, the authors portray the contradictory and contested co-existence of discrepant gendered norms, values and visions in a society caught up in wider processes of sociopolitical change. ‘Women, Gender and Everyday Social Transformation in India’ moves the debate on gender and social transformation into the domain of everyday life to arrive at locally embedded and detailed, ethnographically informed analyses of gender relations in real-life contexts that foreground both subtle and not-so-subtle negotiations and contestations.