Abstract: Sustenance and support of a strategic caste system and hierarchical patriarchal system that prevailed in India, was at an enormous social cost. Women of higher caste had to bear a considerable part of this social burden of the patriarchy…
Abstract: The paper is based largely on the field visits and interviews the author undertook during 1998-99 in 87 community forestry sites across five states of India (Gujarat, Karnataka. Madhya Pradesh, Orissa, and the Uttar Pradesh hills) and two districts…
Abstract: The conventional large patriarchal family is now a statistical minority. The number of fissioned families is on rise and the size of traditional joint or extended families has become gradually smaller. Kin marriages are becoming less and less common.…
Abstract: The paper argues that the concept of the tribe is modern. It is a term coined during colonial rule. The history of constructing the tribe in India has both colonial and indigenous roots. Colonialism is important in the…
Abstract: A literary work becomes a very effective instrument of social change when the author has the motive to rebel against the social atrocities of a particular period. Such works play their role as messiahs by attracting a large number…
Abstract: This article examines Attukal Pongala – a contemporary women’s offering to the goddess Bhagavati at Attukal Temple in Kerala, South India – and its practices, myths and rituals from the viewpoint of the researcher and the women who…
Abstract: Theory building occupies an important place in Social Science research. It helps one to grapple with social realities, to relate the seemingly unrelated and isolated social phenomena with each other and establish their causes and effects. The primary task…
Abstract: This article discusses the use of pronominal and kinship terms in the patriarchal Namboodiri community. The aim of the article is to reveal the patriarchy reflected in language. It has been found that the position of the dominant…
Abstract: Women in Kerala, despite many indicators like favourable sex-ratio, literacy, access to education and health care are far from being equal members of the society. The state has witnessed many socio-political changes in the last hundred years. But the…
Abstract: In today’s world of advanced technologies, mass media with its capacity to standardise, homogenise and transform ideologies plays a great role in the formulation of femininity as a set of social expectations created and nurtured in any patriarchal society.…
Abstract: In all socialised communities there is a regular power structure though it may not be visible clearly, except to the discernible eye. The power of the rulers over the ruled, the power of man over woman, the power of…
Abstract: Usha K. B., in her “Political Reservation and Empowerment of Women” discusses the participation of women in Politics, the gender-bias of Political Science, and how the caste system and patriarchy has successfully managed to marginalise women in Indian society.…
