| ID | 178861 |
| Title Proper | Introduction |
| Other Title Information | a country of Her Making |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Sen, Uditi ; Bhardwaj Datta, Anjali ; Sreenivas, Mytheli |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This Introduction frames a collection of papers that explore the roles played by women—as volunteers, organisers, bureaucrats, politicians and citizens—in shaping the emerging ideologies and structures of independent India. Although women’s participation is both understudied and inadequately theorised in existing scholarship, the papers in this collection demonstrate that the decades following India’s Independence witnessed the participation of women in every sphere of politics and nation-building. The introductory essay tracks the limits and possibilities of women’s agency and gendered citizenship in these spheres to historicise the women’s movement during the post-Independence decades, and to examine its fraught relationship with feminism, patriarchal society and state politics. |
| `In' analytical Note | South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies Vol. 44, No.2; Apr 2021: p.218-227 |
| Journal Source | South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 2021-04 44, 2 |
| Key Words | Development ; Social service ; Feminism ; Nation ; Activism ; Indian Women ; Independent India ; Women’s Labour ; Women’s Agency |