Understanding women's land rights: gender discrimination in ownership/
edited by Prem Chowdhry
- New Delhi: SAGE, 2017.
- xxii, 413 p. ; 23 cm.
- (Land reforms in India), v. 13 .
Foreword / Upma Chawdhry -- Editor's introduction: Persisting gender discrimination in land rights / Prem Chowdhry -- Andhra Pradesh : land rights and land access to women in Andhra Pradesh / E. Revathi -- Arunachal Pradesh : engendering tribal land rights for gendering the land : a case study among Apatani and Nyishi communities / Rimi Tadu -- Chhattisgarh : gender issues in landownership in Chattisgarh : existing land laws, policies, and practices / Ramesh Sharma -- Goa : women and land rights in the context of legal propertied equality in Goa / Ritu Dewan -- Gujarat : women empowerment through landownership rights : critical assessment of their status in Gujarat / Itishree Pattnaik -- Jammu and Kashmir : gendering the landownership question in Jammu and Kashmir / Abha Chauhan -- Jharkhand : understanding women and land rights in Jharkhand / M.N. Karna -- Maharashtra : land, land rights and women in Maharashtra / Ritu Dewan -- Mizoram : women's access and ownership of land : a case of Mizoram state in India / Saroj Arora -- Nagaland : gender and land relations in Nagaland : emerging issues / C. Sridhar, Saroj Arora, and Khunenchu Magh -- Rajasthan : persisting inequalities : gender and land rights in Rajasthan / Kanchan Mathur -- Sikkim : locating gender in land rights discourse in Sikkim / Sohel Firdos -- Tamil Nadu : women's land rights in the context of neo-liberal Tamil Nadu / Ranjani K. Murthy -- Uttarakhand : gender justice and law : a gender-specific study of landownership in Uttarakhand / Indu Pathak.
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Sex discrimination against women Women landowners Land tenure Land tenure--Law and legislation