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Rural Women’s Power in South AsiaPolicies and Interventions

Rural Women’s Power in South Asia: Policies and Interventions [This chapter seeks to elucidate recent and historical policies, discourses, and interventions that have shaped the lives of rural women in Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh, and to identify the unequal impacts of all three nations’ interventions on women of different faiths and geographies. I examine relevant processes and programs, including governmental quotas and NGO activities, by focusing on policies affecting, and interventions in, rural communities. In particular, I focus on the local government level, where panchayats, or union parishads, and sanghas serve as the basis for local governance in which women are elected to serve their local communities.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Rural Women’s Power in South AsiaPolicies and Interventions

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014
ISBN
978-1-349-45784-7
Pages
44 –66
DOI
10.1057/9781137320766_3
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Abstract

[This chapter seeks to elucidate recent and historical policies, discourses, and interventions that have shaped the lives of rural women in Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh, and to identify the unequal impacts of all three nations’ interventions on women of different faiths and geographies. I examine relevant processes and programs, including governmental quotas and NGO activities, by focusing on policies affecting, and interventions in, rural communities. In particular, I focus on the local government level, where panchayats, or union parishads, and sanghas serve as the basis for local governance in which women are elected to serve their local communities.]

Published: Oct 19, 2015

Keywords: Rural Woman; British Colonial; Indian Government; Schedule Caste; Joint Forest Management

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