Uma Chakravarti
Biographic Data
| ID | 272930 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Uma Chakravarti |
| GIVEN NAMES | Uma |
| FAMILY NAME | Chakravarti |
| SIGNATURE | CHAKRAVARTI U |
| AFFILIATIONS | Delhi |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
In Search of Begumpura
From the Home to the Borders: Violence Against Women, Impunity and Resistance
In this article, I will examine the arc of violence that women in India have been historically subjected to, as well as new arenas in which violence is now manifesting itself. The focus is on four arenas in which violence against women, especially sexual violence, needs to be located as each of these have specific features that are associated with the manner in which impunity operates, thereby invisibilising violence, and the long road traversed …
Gendering Caste: Through a Feminist Lens
The continuous demand for Gendering Caste: Through a Feminist Lens led to this revised edition which analyses the recent socio-economic and political changes that have taken place. Caste-based marriage and control over women's sexuality have been crucial for the continuation of the caste system in India. Thus, caste and gender are linked. Brutal reprisals have followed when dalits and women have tried to challenge caste-based marriage and inequal…
Women, Mobility and Incarceration: Love and Recasting of Self across the Bangladesh-India Border
This book explores how Bangladeshi women from poor and undereducated/semi-educated backgrounds who have crossed the Indo-Bangladesh border find themselves in prisons serving sentences under the Foreigners Act, 1946. Drawing on original fieldwork, this book explores these women’s understanding of borders and state sovereignty and how the women - from conservative rural and semi-rural backgrounds which impose a strict moral code - adjust to the soc…
Beyond the Mantra of Empowerment: Time to Return to Poverty, Violence and Struggle
This article examines some of the critical issues raised by the women’s movement in India on the violence experienced by women both within the family and through modes of development initiated by the state, and the manner in which the state has sought to both counter feminist critiques as well as co-opt them through state-initiated policies. It focuses in particular on literacy and microcredit programmes, to argue that the rhetoric of empowerment…
Of Binaries and Beyond: The Dialectics of Buddhist–Brahmanical Relations in India
Despite a long tradition of tracing the relationship between Buddhism and Brahmanism there is a need to rethink the view that the two are positioned as discrete binaries, consistently oppose to each other. While there is considerable antagonism between the Buddhists and the brahmanas they were also impelled to enter into negotiations with each other, making for a rich textual dialogue between the two. This paper examines the nature of this dialog…
Beyond the Mantra of Empowerment: Time to Return to Poverty, Violence and Struggle
This article will explore the conflicted relationship between the women’s movement – with a specific location in feminism – and other people’s movements on the one hand, and the changing policies of the state on the other, through an indepth analysis of three programmes – the Women’s Development Programme (WDP) in Rajasthan, the Total Literacy Campaign (TLC) in Andhra Pradesh, and the focus on self-help groups (SHG) in Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh.…
Exploring a ‘No-Conflict’ Zone: Interest, Emotio and the Family in Early India
Wifehood, Widowhood, and Adultery: Female Sexuality, Surveillance, and the State in Eighteenth-Century Maharastra
Colluding Patriarchies: The Colonial Reform of Sexual Relations in India
The Family in ancient India: Ideal and reality
Wifehood, Widowhood and Adultery: Female Sexuality, Surveillance and the State in 18th Century Maharashtra
Cet article etudie les relation entre patriarcat, caste et Etat dans le contexte du Maharasthra du 18 e siecle. L'objectif de l'A. est double : 1) souligner la complexite des facteurs par lesquels un ensemble specifique de pratiques culturelles relatives aux codes sexuels est maintenu, renforce et reproduit non pas majoritairement par des communautes particulieres mais par l'Etat ; 2) attirer l'attention a la fois sur l'Etat et les autres institu…
Women, men and beasts: The Jataka as popular tradition
Social Pariahs and Domestic Drudges: Widowhood among Nineteenth Century Poona Brahmins
Throughout the nineteenth century the low status of women as exemplified by the plight of the child widow, condemned to a life of enforced celibacy, became the subject of a highly visible and widespread discussion. This debate and various stages of the accompanying movement for widow remarriage have been fairly well documented along with a detailed analysis of the issues raised in western India-the region which is the focus of my study on widowho…
Beyond the Altekarian Paradigm: Towards a New Understanding of Gender Relations in Early Indian History
The Social Philosophy of Buddhism and the Problem of Inequality
L'auteur de cet article analyse la relation existant entre le Bouddhisme et la société indienne du VIe siècle avant J. C. qui I'a vu apparaître. Cette période fut marquée par le processus de formation de l'Etat basé sur une société rurale en expansion. Un phénomène de profonde stratification engendra l'émergence d'une grande pau vreté des uns face à la prospérité des autres. Les rapports de pro duction (avec leurs inégalités sociales, économiques…
Wifehood, Widowhood and Adultery: Female Sexuality, Surveillance and the State in 18th Century Maharashtra
Cet article etudie les relation entre patriarcat, caste et Etat dans le contexte du Maharasthra du 18 e siecle. L'objectif de l'A. est double : 1) souligner la complexite des facteurs par lesquels un ensemble specifique de pratiques culturelles relatives aux codes sexuels est maintenu, renforce et reproduit non pas majoritairement par des communautes particulieres mais par l'Etat ; 2) attirer l'attention a la fois sur l'Etat et les autres institu…
Colluding Patriarchies: The Colonial Reform of Sexual Relations in India
Social Pariahs and Domestic Drudges: Widowhood among Nineteenth Century Poona Brahmins
Throughout the nineteenth century the low status of women as exemplified by the plight of the child widow, condemned to a life of enforced celibacy, became the subject of a highly visible and widespread discussion. This debate and various stages of the accompanying movement for widow remarriage have been fairly well documented along with a detailed analysis of the issues raised in western India-the region which is the focus of my study on widowho…
Beyond the Altekarian Paradigm: Towards a New Understanding of Gender Relations in Early Indian History
The Social Philosophy of Buddhism and the Problem of Inequality
L'auteur de cet article analyse la relation existant entre le Bouddhisme et la société indienne du VIe siècle avant J. C. qui I'a vu apparaître. Cette période fut marquée par le processus de formation de l'Etat basé sur une société rurale en expansion. Un phénomène de profonde stratification engendra l'émergence d'une grande pau vreté des uns face à la prospérité des autres. Les rapports de pro duction (avec leurs inégalités sociales, économiques…
From the Home to the Borders: Violence Against Women, Impunity and Resistance
In this article, I will examine the arc of violence that women in India have been historically subjected to, as well as new arenas in which violence is now manifesting itself. The focus is on four arenas in which violence against women, especially sexual violence, needs to be located as each of these have specific features that are associated with the manner in which impunity operates, thereby invisibilising violence, and the long road traversed …
Of Binaries and Beyond: The Dialectics of Buddhist–Brahmanical Relations in India
Despite a long tradition of tracing the relationship between Buddhism and Brahmanism there is a need to rethink the view that the two are positioned as discrete binaries, consistently oppose to each other. While there is considerable antagonism between the Buddhists and the brahmanas they were also impelled to enter into negotiations with each other, making for a rich textual dialogue between the two. This paper examines the nature of this dialog…
Beyond the Mantra of Empowerment: Time to Return to Poverty, Violence and Struggle
This article will explore the conflicted relationship between the women’s movement – with a specific location in feminism – and other people’s movements on the one hand, and the changing policies of the state on the other, through an indepth analysis of three programmes – the Women’s Development Programme (WDP) in Rajasthan, the Total Literacy Campaign (TLC) in Andhra Pradesh, and the focus on self-help groups (SHG) in Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh.…
Exploring a ‘No-Conflict’ Zone: Interest, Emotio and the Family in Early India
The Social Philosophy of Buddhism and the Problem of Inequality
L'auteur de cet article analyse la relation existant entre le Bouddhisme et la société indienne du VIe siècle avant J. C. qui I'a vu apparaître. Cette période fut marquée par le processus de formation de l'Etat basé sur une société rurale en expansion. Un phénomène de profonde stratification engendra l'émergence d'une grande pau vreté des uns face à la prospérité des autres. Les rapports de pro duction (avec leurs inégalités sociales, économiques…
Beyond the Altekarian Paradigm: Towards a New Understanding of Gender Relations in Early Indian History
Women, men and beasts: The Jataka as popular tradition
Social Pariahs and Domestic Drudges: Widowhood among Nineteenth Century Poona Brahmins
Throughout the nineteenth century the low status of women as exemplified by the plight of the child widow, condemned to a life of enforced celibacy, became the subject of a highly visible and widespread discussion. This debate and various stages of the accompanying movement for widow remarriage have been fairly well documented along with a detailed analysis of the issues raised in western India-the region which is the focus of my study on widowho…
Wifehood, Widowhood and Adultery: Female Sexuality, Surveillance and the State in 18th Century Maharashtra
Cet article etudie les relation entre patriarcat, caste et Etat dans le contexte du Maharasthra du 18 e siecle. L'objectif de l'A. est double : 1) souligner la complexite des facteurs par lesquels un ensemble specifique de pratiques culturelles relatives aux codes sexuels est maintenu, renforce et reproduit non pas majoritairement par des communautes particulieres mais par l'Etat ; 2) attirer l'attention a la fois sur l'Etat et les autres institu…
The Family in ancient India: Ideal and reality
Colluding Patriarchies: The Colonial Reform of Sexual Relations in India
Wifehood, Widowhood, and Adultery: Female Sexuality, Surveillance, and the State in Eighteenth-Century Maharastra
Exploring a ‘No-Conflict’ Zone: Interest, Emotio and the Family in Early India
Beyond the Mantra of Empowerment: Time to Return to Poverty, Violence and Struggle
This article will explore the conflicted relationship between the women’s movement – with a specific location in feminism – and other people’s movements on the one hand, and the changing policies of the state on the other, through an indepth analysis of three programmes – the Women’s Development Programme (WDP) in Rajasthan, the Total Literacy Campaign (TLC) in Andhra Pradesh, and the focus on self-help groups (SHG) in Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh.…
Of Binaries and Beyond: The Dialectics of Buddhist–Brahmanical Relations in India
Despite a long tradition of tracing the relationship between Buddhism and Brahmanism there is a need to rethink the view that the two are positioned as discrete binaries, consistently oppose to each other. While there is considerable antagonism between the Buddhists and the brahmanas they were also impelled to enter into negotiations with each other, making for a rich textual dialogue between the two. This paper examines the nature of this dialog…
Beyond the Mantra of Empowerment: Time to Return to Poverty, Violence and Struggle
This article examines some of the critical issues raised by the women’s movement in India on the violence experienced by women both within the family and through modes of development initiated by the state, and the manner in which the state has sought to both counter feminist critiques as well as co-opt them through state-initiated policies. It focuses in particular on literacy and microcredit programmes, to argue that the rhetoric of empowerment…
Gendering Caste: Through a Feminist Lens
The continuous demand for Gendering Caste: Through a Feminist Lens led to this revised edition which analyses the recent socio-economic and political changes that have taken place. Caste-based marriage and control over women's sexuality have been crucial for the continuation of the caste system in India. Thus, caste and gender are linked. Brutal reprisals have followed when dalits and women have tried to challenge caste-based marriage and inequal…
Women, Mobility and Incarceration: Love and Recasting of Self across the Bangladesh-India Border
This book explores how Bangladeshi women from poor and undereducated/semi-educated backgrounds who have crossed the Indo-Bangladesh border find themselves in prisons serving sentences under the Foreigners Act, 1946. Drawing on original fieldwork, this book explores these women’s understanding of borders and state sovereignty and how the women - from conservative rural and semi-rural backgrounds which impose a strict moral code - adjust to the soc…
From the Home to the Borders: Violence Against Women, Impunity and Resistance
In this article, I will examine the arc of violence that women in India have been historically subjected to, as well as new arenas in which violence is now manifesting itself. The focus is on four arenas in which violence against women, especially sexual violence, needs to be located as each of these have specific features that are associated with the manner in which impunity operates, thereby invisibilising violence, and the long road traversed …
In Search of Begumpura
Sociology (13 works) · Political science (12 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · History (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (6 works) · History (6 works) · Art (3 works) · Caste (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works)