This book provides deep insights into the wide-ranging issues linked to gender, law, and social transformation in India. It focuses on women-centered laws as we

The pace of socioeconomic transformation in India over the past two and a half decades has been formidable. This volume sheds light on how these transformations

Women constitute a large portion of the economically active population engaged in agriculture. International instruments on human rights, the environment and su

Quotas for women in government have swept the globe. Yet we know little about their capacity to upend entrenched social, political, and economic hierarchies. Wo