Cover; Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Foreword; A Note from the Co-ordinator; Introduction: Understanding Land Rights of Women; 1 -- Marginalization of Women: Inheritance in Assam; 2 -- Need for an Ideological Struggle: Society and Law in Bihar; 3 -- Gendered Spaces: Agrarian Economy of Haryana; 4 -- Customary Practices, Law and Gender in Himachal Pradesh; 5 -- Addressing Legal Rights in Karnataka; 6 -- Residual Farmers on Household Land? Women and Second Generation Concerns of Regulation in Kerala; 7 -- Gendering Land Reforms in Madhya Pradesh; 8 -- Women and Inheritance Practices in Manipur
9 -- Tribal Areas of Meghalaya: Land Ownership of Women10 -- Need for a Paradigm Shift: Justice and Equality for Women in Orissa; 11 -- Women's Entitlement and Legal Position in Puducherry (Pondicherry); 12 -- Gender and Reform in Punjab; 13 -- Women's Access and Rights to Land in Uttar Pradesh; 14 -- Analyzing Women's Rights: A Field Study from West Bengal; About the Editor and Contributors; Index
Summary
This edited volume analyzes the different degrees of discrimination meted out to women by the country's inheritance laws and the corresponding customary practices in tribal societies. It also exposes the current socio-legal structure in the country, which systematically denies women the accessibility to and ownership of productive resources. Gender Discrimination in Land Ownership is XIth in the series 'Land Reforms in India', initiated by the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration, Mussoorie. The volume contains 14 well-researched chapters through which distinguished scholars
