Faith-based development organizations have become a central part of the lives of the women of rural Rajasthan, and have come to represent an important aspect of individual and collective identities. This title presents a study of the contradictory role of development organisatio…
Rajasthan, Delhi & Agra
by Clammer, Paul, Blasi, Abigail, Raub, Kevin, Lonely Planet Publications
Rajasthan, Delhi & Agra
by Clammer, Paul, Blasi, Abigail, Raub, Kevin
fromLonely Planet
"This book studies the phenomenon of violence which, while being meted out to individual women, is systemically rooted in the social pattern of gender relations. Addressing gender violence requires challenging the means by which gender roles and power relations are defined and a…
Extrait de la couverture : "Violence constitutes a major form of oppressing women. Rooted in the practical experiences of rural Indian women, [the document] explores those facets of social, culturaal and economic life that otherwise appear to have little bearing on gender violen…
"This book studies the phenomenon of violence which, while being meted out to individual women, is systemically rooted in the social pattern of gender relations. Addressing gender violence requires challenging the means by which gender roles and power relations are defined and a…
Violence constitutes a major form of oppressing women. Rooted in the practical experiences of rural Indian women, Countering Gender Violence explores those facets of social, cultural and economic life that otherwise appear to have little bearing on gender violence and hence are …
This study of the British colonial administrator James Tod (1782-1835), who spent five years in north-western India (1818-22) collecting every conceivable type of material of historical or cultural interest on the Rajputs and the Gujaratis, gives special attention to his role as…
"What if we could imagine hierarchy not as a social ill, but as a source of social creativity and hope? In Nobody's People, Anastasia Piliavsky takes us into the world of thieves, the Kanjars, in the Indian state of Rajasthan. Introducing us to wily policemen, quirky aristocrats…
