Women in State Politics in India: Missing in the Corridors of Power - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 1032449969 ISBN 13: 9781032449968

Verlag: Routledge India, 2024

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The dynamics of Indian politics is reflected in the flexible and fluctuating relations between the centre and the states. This book is one of the first to explore the participation of women in state and local politics in India and how women navigate the dynamic space of the Indian political system.

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Pam Rajput is Professor Emeritus at Panjab University, Chandigarh; Former Dean, Faculty of Arts, Chair and Professor of Political Science, and Founder Director of the Centre for Women's Studies and Development, Chandigarh. She has been a Visiting Professor at Hiroshima University, Japan; Rand Afrikaans University (now University of Johannesburg) South Africa; and a number of Canadian universities under the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute's visiting professor programme. Her publications (co-authored/co-edited) include Women and Globalisation, Narratives of Women's Studies. In addition to her academic profile, Rajput chaired the Government of India High-Level Committee on the Status of Women.

Usha Thakkar is President of the Mani Bhavan Gandhi Sangrahalaya, Mumbai. She retired as Professor and Head at the Department of Political Science, SNDT Women's University, Mumbai. She has done her post-doctoral research at the University of Chicago and Canada, on a WID fellowship from the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute. The Asiatic Society of Mumbai has conferred her with an Honorary Fellowship. Her publications (authored/co-authored/co-edited) include Congress Radio: Usha Mehta and the Underground Radio Station of 1942, Gandhi in Bombay: Towards Swaraj, Women in Indian Society, and Culture and the Making of Identity in Contemporary India.

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• Verlag: Routledge India
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1032449969
• ISBN 13: 9781032449968
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 392
• Herausgeber: Rajput Pam, Thakkar Usha
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: gpsr@libri.de; gpsr@libri.de; ; Europaallee 1; Bad Hersfeld; 36244; Deutschland