Understanding women's land rights : gender discrimination in ownership /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	New Delhi, India ; Thousand Oaks, California : SAGE, 2017. ©2017
Description:	xxii, 413 pages ; 23 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Land reforms in India ; volume 13 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.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11660516

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Other authors / contributors:	Chowdhry, Prem, editor.
ISBN:	9789386446312 9386446316 9789386446336 9386446332 9789386446329 9386446324
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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."--

Table of Contents:

List of Tables
List of Figures
Foreword
A Note from the Centre Director
Acknowledgements
1. Editor's Introduction: Persisting Gender Discrimination in Land Rights
2. Andhra Pradesh: Land Rights and Land Access to Women in Andhra Pradesh
3. Arunachal Pradesh: Engendering Tribal Land Rights for Gendering the Land: A Case Study Among Apatani and Nyishi Communities
4. Chhattisgarh: Gender Issues in Landownership in Chhattisgarh: Existing Land Laws, Policies, and Practices
5. Goa: Women and Land Rights in the Context of Legal Propertied Equality in Goa
6. Gujarat: Women Empowerment Through Landownership Rights: Critical Assessment of Their Status in Gujarat
7. Jammu and Kashmir: Gendering the Landownership Question in Jammu and Kashmir
8. Jharkhand: Understanding Women and Land Rights in Jharkhand
9. Maharashtra: Land, Land Rights, and Women in Maharashtra
10. Mizoram: Women's Access and Ownership of Land: A Case of Mizoram State in India
11. Nagaland: Gender and Land Relations in Nagaland: Emerging Issues
12. Rajasthan: Persisting Inequalities: Gender and Land Rights in Rajasthan
13. Sikkim: Locating Gender in Land Rights Discourse of Sikkim
14. Tamil Nadu: Women's Land Rights in the Context of Neo-liberal Tamil Nadu
15. Uttarakhand: Gender Justice and Law: A Gender-specific Study of Landownership in Uttarakhand
About the Editor and Contributors
Index

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