Indu Agnihotri
Biographic Data
| ID | 2380718 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Indu Agnihotri |
| GIVEN NAMES | Indu |
| FAMILY NAME | Agnihotri |
| SIGNATURE | AGNIHOTRI I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre for Women's Development Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1937-4534 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Gender and nationality
This paper seeks to open up a field of enquiry and focus on encounters between the colonial regime in India and “foreign” women around the time of the World Wars. The terms on which trans-continental lives were negotiated came to be embedded in legal regimes which were continuously evolving. The interface of women and the colonial state needs to be studied from multiple socio-political locations. The lens of gender, generally invoked with referen…
In the Shelter’ by Rosa Luxemburg
Reading Neera Desai
This article attempts a re-reading of Neera Desai’s Woman in Modern India, to trace the evolution of her thoughts on women’s condition in India and the emerging women’s movement. It engages with the pioneering scholar’s efforts to identify the ‘oppressive institutional and ideological legacy’, which held back women’s rights and the achievement of the goals that the freedom struggle had upheld. Desai took note of material conditions and diverse re…
Neera Desai
Dusty Trails and Unsettled Lives
The Expanding Dimensions of Dowry
Recent years have seen a spread and intensification in the scale of dowry demand and dowry-related violence. Some months ago the AID WA organised a workshop to discuss the issue in view of the women's movements' engagement with it for over two decades. The discussion highlighted the changing form and nature of dowry as well as social practices in different regions, castes and community groups, and the need to understand these in the context of tr…
Emancipation of Women
The Fourth World Conference on Women
Ecology, land use and colonisation
Ecology, land use and colonisation
Dusty Trails and Unsettled Lives
The Expanding Dimensions of Dowry
Recent years have seen a spread and intensification in the scale of dowry demand and dowry-related violence. Some months ago the AID WA organised a workshop to discuss the issue in view of the women's movements' engagement with it for over two decades. The discussion highlighted the changing form and nature of dowry as well as social practices in different regions, castes and community groups, and the need to understand these in the context of tr…
Emancipation of Women
The Fourth World Conference on Women
Ecology, land use and colonisation
Emancipation of Women
The Expanding Dimensions of Dowry
Recent years have seen a spread and intensification in the scale of dowry demand and dowry-related violence. Some months ago the AID WA organised a workshop to discuss the issue in view of the women's movements' engagement with it for over two decades. The discussion highlighted the changing form and nature of dowry as well as social practices in different regions, castes and community groups, and the need to understand these in the context of tr…
Dusty Trails and Unsettled Lives
Reading Neera Desai
This article attempts a re-reading of Neera Desai’s Woman in Modern India, to trace the evolution of her thoughts on women’s condition in India and the emerging women’s movement. It engages with the pioneering scholar’s efforts to identify the ‘oppressive institutional and ideological legacy’, which held back women’s rights and the achievement of the goals that the freedom struggle had upheld. Desai took note of material conditions and diverse re…
Neera Desai
In the Shelter’ by Rosa Luxemburg
Gender and nationality
This paper seeks to open up a field of enquiry and focus on encounters between the colonial regime in India and “foreign” women around the time of the World Wars. The terms on which trans-continental lives were negotiated came to be embedded in legal regimes which were continuously evolving. The interface of women and the colonial state needs to be studied from multiple socio-political locations. The lens of gender, generally invoked with referen…
Sociology (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Geography (4 works) · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · History (2 works)