Shahri Jat and Dehati Jatni
The Indian peasant community in transition
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22946133 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sunil K Khanna (0000-0003-4504-2370, corresponding author), Sunil Khanna (0000-0002-9346-4896) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 37-53 |
| Publication date | 2001-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Contemporary South Asia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0958-4935 • E-ISSN: 1469-364X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/713658658 |
| OpenAlex | W4242306460 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 15 |
This paper seeks to understand the gender-specific consequences of the Shahargaon Jat community's increasing urban contact with New Delhi. It examines the consequences of a quick assimilation of Jat men into income-generating activities in the urban market and a corresponding loss of Jat women's economic roles, leading to their further seclusion and marginalization within the household and community. By providing a historically contextualized account of shifts in gender identity and relations in Shahargaon, the paper considers the ways in which the newly constructed urban patriarchal gender ideology and its asymmetric power relations reinforce gender disparity and marginalize women in an urbanizing community. The Shahargaon Jat community's particular historical and patriarchal context, kinship and marriage rules, and the present state of urbanization constitutes an example of the overall failure of urban exposure to improve economic participation and the overall quality of life for women in urbanizing communities in north India. It appears that the community's economic well-being has not worked in tandem with the women's social well-being in Shahargaon, in the sense that the Jat patriarchal system and its rules have largely remained unaltered despite exposure to the urban environment of New Delhi. Instead, Shahargaon's increasing urban context has intensified patriarchal control and the corresponding marginalization of Jat women. The Shahargaon case may illustrate a widespread pattern of the increasing gender asymmetry in several other urbanizing village communities in north India.
Archaeology · Development economics · Economics · Ethnology · Geography · Peasant · Political science · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Transition (genetics) · Agricultural Economics and Practices · Agricultural risk and resilience · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Social and Economic Development in India · South Asian Studies and Conflicts
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| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |