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In my paper I have dealt with the issue of women’s representation in the political realm in conte... more In my paper I have dealt with the issue of women’s representation in the political realm in contemporary India. I have emphasized on the role of women as political citizen and how the identity of ‘womanhood’ continues to remain a focal point of all discussions. It is important to understand the historical trajectory of formation of women’s recognition as political citizens and how their identity of ‘womanhood’ imposes a baggage of submission in many realms, political milieu being one, but it also entails ideas of assertion as well. To depict this I shall be talking from the vantage point of the issue of women’s reservation protests in Nagaland in the urban local bodies in contemporary times. In the first section of my paper I shall be traversing through some of the prominent debates and discourses that will be useful to understand the issue and in my next section I shall try to seek answers to the following questions. How has the women’s question been dealt with over the years? Are women recognized as fully potential political citizens? How is the ‘public’ and ‘private’ realms mutually constituted in formation of identities? As I plan to highlight on the issue of women’s reservation in Nagaland politics I shall be dealing with the central question of the contention between ‘tradition’ and ‘modernity’ in this paper.
Papers by Aishee Bhattacharjee
Journal of Migration Affairs, Mar 1, 2019
In my paper I have dealt with the issue of women’s representation in the political realm in conte... more In my paper I have dealt with the issue of women’s representation in the political realm in contemporary India. I have emphasized on the role of women as political citizen and how the identity of ‘womanhood’ continues to remain a focal point of all discussions. It is important to understand the historical trajectory of formation of women’s recognition as political citizens and how their identity of ‘womanhood’ imposes a baggage of submission in many realms, political milieu being one, but it also entails ideas of assertion as well. To depict this I shall be talking from the vantage point of the issue of women’s reservation protests in Nagaland in the urban local bodies in contemporary times. In the first section of my paper I shall be traversing through some of the prominent debates and discourses that will be useful to understand the issue and in my next section I shall try to seek answers to the following questions. How has the women’s question been dealt with over the years? Are women recognized as fully potential political citizens? How is the ‘public’ and ‘private’ realms mutually constituted in formation of identities? As I plan to highlight on the issue of women’s reservation in Nagaland politics I shall be dealing with the central question of the contention between ‘tradition’ and ‘modernity’ in this paper.
Journal of Migration Affairs, Mar 1, 2019