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Human rights as practice : dalit women securing livelihood entitlements in South India
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mangubhai, Jayshree P., Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women's rights--Legal status, laws, etc--India--Tamil Nadu.
- Women's rights.
- Dalit women--Economic conditions--India--Tamil Nadu.
- Dalit women.
- Dalit women--Tamil Nadu--India.
- Human rights--India--Tamil Nadu.
- Human rights.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Other Title:
- Human rights as practice
- Place of Publication:
- New Delhi : Oxford University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This study is based on ethnographic fieldwork in three villages in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu, where Dalit women engage in struggles to secure or protect livelihood entitlements such as housing land or work. The research examines the processes of these women organising and evolving collective action strategies to claim access to and control over livelihood resources in different contexts where they face social exclusion.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on January 6, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 9780199082650 (ebook) :
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