Women, Politics and the State in India(Theory)

Paper Code: 
WMS 401
Credits: 
3
Contact Hours: 
45.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 

 

 Outcome (at course level)

Learning and teaching strategies

Assessment Strategies 

  
 

CO 37: Acquaint the students with the political scenario with respect to women.

CO 38: Critically examine women’s role in decision-making process.

CO 39: Identify migration as a social issue.

CO 40: Assess and develop theoretical insights for women’s reservation.

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Reading assignments

 

Learning activities for the students:

Self learning assignments, Effective questions, Seminar presentation, Giving tasks

Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Assignments, Presentation, Individual and group projects

  

 

9.00
  • Fundamental Rights for women as per the Constitution of India

 

9.00
  • Women in Elections as voters, as contestants: Elections of 1952

 

 

9.00
  • Women in political decision making – Dilemmas and Contributions

 

9.00
  • Introducing Transition from tribe to state, impact on women’s status with reference to migration and rehabilitation (Case Study of Chipko Movement)

 

 

9.00
  • Perception of Women by the Indian State – Women’s Reservation Bill

 

Essential Readings: 
  • Fundamental Rights (Related to women) in Subhash Kashyap, Our Constitution, An Introduction To India’s Constitution, 2014
  • Election Commition of India – website eci.nic.in/eci_main1/ElectionStatistics.aspx
  • p.105, pp.139-142 Mazumdar, Vina, Memories of a Rolling Stone, Zubaan, New Delhi, 2010
  • pp 27-32 WSI 2008
  • pp 475-491Virginius Xara, ‘Women and Gender in the Study of Tribes in India’, and TiplutNongbri, ‘Ethnicity and Gender: Identity Among the Khasis’ in Mary E John ed. Women’s Studies in India, A Reader, Penguin Books, 2008,
  • pp 211-217 Sharma, Kumud, Women in Struggle: A Case Study of the Chipko Movement in WSI, 2008
  • pp 91-97, Articles on Women’s Reservation Bill in WSI 2008
  • Women’s Reservation Bill passed in Rajya Sabha 2010

 

References: 
  • Sinha, Niroj, Empowerment of Women Through Political Participation, Kalpaz Publications, Delhi, 2007
  • Das, Veena, ed. Handbook of Indian Sociology, OUP, New Delhi 2004
  • S. P. Sathe, Towards Gender Justice, RCWS, SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai, 1996
  • Banerjee, Somya, National Policy for Women, Arise Publishers & Distributers, New Delhi, 2009
  • Kabeer, N., Reversed Realities, London: Verso, 1995.
  • Hasan, Zoya (ed.) Forging Identities: Gender Communities and State, Kali for Women, New Delhi, 1994
  • Kumar, Radha. The History of Doing: An Illustrated Account of Movements for Women’s Rights and Feminism in India, 1800-1990, Kali for Women, New Delhi, 1993
  • Janaki Nair, Law in Colonial India, Delhi, Kali for Women, 1996
  • Lucy Caroll, The Law, Custom and Statutory Social Reform: The Hindu ‘Widow’s Remarriage Act of 1856’ in J Krishnamurti ed. Women in Colonial India, Delhi OUP, 1989.
  • Agarwal, Bina, Field of her Own, Kali for Women, New Delhi
  • JC Johri, Principals of Modern Political Science, Sterling Publisher, 1995
  • Kapur, Ratna (ed.), Feminist Terrains in Legal Terrains, Kali for Women, Delhi 1996
  • Butalia U, Sarkar, T (ed.), Women and the Hindu Right, Kali for Women, New Delhi 1996.

 

 

Academic Session: 
2022-23
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