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Narendra Subramanian provides a detailed historical account of the development of personal laws i... more Narendra Subramanian provides a detailed historical account of the development of personal laws in postcolonial India. He analyzes this development through the ideas of cultural pluralism and gender equality. India is a multicultural, multireligious, and multilingual society with diverse castes and communities. In postindependent India, legislature has given due significance to the value of “equality before law” while passing personal laws concerning marriage, inheritance of ancestral property, and women’s rights in their spouse’s families. However, both the legislature and judiciary have been sensitive toward the concerns of different religious, ethnic, and caste groups. They have made conscious efforts to maintain balance between the value of “equality before law” and demand for “legal pluralism.”
India is a developing country going through demographic transition, here, imbalance in the sex ra... more India is a developing country going through demographic transition, here, imbalance in the sex ratio of different age groups, such as new born and juvenile, has become a major cause of worry and concerns. Sex composition of population needs intensive research and attention of scholars. In this paper, an effort has been made in this direction to understand the sex ratio at birth of Indian population with respect to it’s socioeconomic,biological, and demographic correlates. The study has been carried out using NFHS data, which shows that improved health conditions and family building process through differential spacing and stopping behaviour are responsible for designing the secondary sex composition of the country. The altered sex ratio at birth in states with high son preference, like Punjab, can be inferred in sex selective abortion as well as differential in family building process based on sex preference.
India is a developing country going through demographic transition, here, imbalance in the sex r... more India is a developing country going through demographic transition, here, imbalance in the sex ratio of different age groups, such as new born and
juvenile, has become a major cause of worry and concerns. Sex composition of population needs intensive research and attention of scholars. In this paper, an effort has been made in this direction to understand the sex ratio at birth of Indian population with respect to it’s socioeconomic,biological, and demographic correlates. The study has been carried out using NFHS data, which shows that improved health conditions and family building process through differential spacing and stopping behaviour are responsible for designing the secondary sex composition of the country. The altered sex ratio at birth in states with high son preference, like Punjab, can be inferred in sex selective abortion as well as differential in family building process based on sex preference.
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Crossing Borders and Shifting Identities: Afghan Women on Move Aparna Malaviya Abstract Amidst... more Crossing Borders and Shifting Identities: Afghan Women on Move
Aparna Malaviya
Abstract
Amidst the intricate web of negotiations and survival mechanisms adopted by Afghan refugees in India, Afghan women have landed up in an entirely different socio-political space with new roles to play and challenges to fight. Afghan women refugees, the focus of this paper, are deprived of certain rights by the virtue of their status of ‘asylum seeker’ and ‘refugee’. These ascribed categories add on challenges women encounter in new world. Their exposure to English language, basic computer education and vocational courses through their respective classes run by United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and its partner NGOs, has enabled them to achieve economic self-dependence. The argument of this paper is that in politically alien land, women do not remain mere silent aid receivers, survivors of war and mute spectators of circumstances. Rather they are active participant in social and economic struggle for survival and existence. The status for survival has exposed them to newer possibilities and created an alternative space of functionality. With the passing years various negotiations done for their existence as ‘woman asylum seekers’ and ‘woman refugees’ are inducing definitive changes in the underlying attitude of these women and redefining their roles and power
equations within and outside the community.
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Conference Presentations by Aparna Malaviya
Afghan refugees in India are heterogeneous in terms of regional, ethnic, linguistic and religious... more Afghan refugees in India are heterogeneous in terms of regional, ethnic, linguistic and religious identities. Based on an ethnographic study conducted over eighteen months in different parts of Delhi, and Delhi National Capitol Region (Henceforth NCR) the paper argues that refugees' everyday processes and acts of space creation involve everyday contestations and negotiations with international care organizations, agents of the Indian nation-state, and the host society. These acts of space creation are reflected in the establishment of religious and community organizations, revival of past institutions, and replication of past cultural festivals. The conscious communitarian act of place making, through the establishment of community associations and religious organizations (e.g., gurudwaras and temples) and the reinvention of past socio-cultural festivals have been marked features of the Afghans' ongoing journey of space creation in India. The paper examines how a place becomes symbolic to a community's common past and how this common past contributes towards the formation of a community identity through institutionalization and historicization of memory. Through such conscious acts of institutionalization of memory, the refugee community builds up its own agency to negotiate with state actors and to create a 'new home' in another land.
Narendra Subramanian provides a detailed historical account of the development of personal laws i... more Narendra Subramanian provides a detailed historical account of the development of personal laws in postcolonial India. He analyzes this development through the ideas of cultural pluralism and gender equality. India is a multicultural, multireligious, and multilingual society with diverse castes and communities. In postindependent India, legislature has given due significance to the value of “equality before law” while passing personal laws concerning marriage, inheritance of ancestral property, and women’s rights in their spouse’s families. However, both the legislature and judiciary have been sensitive toward the concerns of different religious, ethnic, and caste groups. They have made conscious efforts to maintain balance between the value of “equality before law” and demand for “legal pluralism.”
India is a developing country going through demographic transition, here, imbalance in the sex ra... more India is a developing country going through demographic transition, here, imbalance in the sex ratio of different age groups, such as new born and juvenile, has become a major cause of worry and concerns. Sex composition of population needs intensive research and attention of scholars. In this paper, an effort has been made in this direction to understand the sex ratio at birth of Indian population with respect to it’s socioeconomic,biological, and demographic correlates. The study has been carried out using NFHS data, which shows that improved health conditions and family building process through differential spacing and stopping behaviour are responsible for designing the secondary sex composition of the country. The altered sex ratio at birth in states with high son preference, like Punjab, can be inferred in sex selective abortion as well as differential in family building process based on sex preference.
India is a developing country going through demographic transition, here, imbalance in the sex r... more India is a developing country going through demographic transition, here, imbalance in the sex ratio of different age groups, such as new born and
juvenile, has become a major cause of worry and concerns. Sex composition of population needs intensive research and attention of scholars. In this paper, an effort has been made in this direction to understand the sex ratio at birth of Indian population with respect to it’s socioeconomic,biological, and demographic correlates. The study has been carried out using NFHS data, which shows that improved health conditions and family building process through differential spacing and stopping behaviour are responsible for designing the secondary sex composition of the country. The altered sex ratio at birth in states with high son preference, like Punjab, can be inferred in sex selective abortion as well as differential in family building process based on sex preference.
Crossing Borders and Shifting Identities: Afghan Women on Move Aparna Malaviya Abstract Amidst... more Crossing Borders and Shifting Identities: Afghan Women on Move
Aparna Malaviya
Abstract
Amidst the intricate web of negotiations and survival mechanisms adopted by Afghan refugees in India, Afghan women have landed up in an entirely different socio-political space with new roles to play and challenges to fight. Afghan women refugees, the focus of this paper, are deprived of certain rights by the virtue of their status of ‘asylum seeker’ and ‘refugee’. These ascribed categories add on challenges women encounter in new world. Their exposure to English language, basic computer education and vocational courses through their respective classes run by United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and its partner NGOs, has enabled them to achieve economic self-dependence. The argument of this paper is that in politically alien land, women do not remain mere silent aid receivers, survivors of war and mute spectators of circumstances. Rather they are active participant in social and economic struggle for survival and existence. The status for survival has exposed them to newer possibilities and created an alternative space of functionality. With the passing years various negotiations done for their existence as ‘woman asylum seekers’ and ‘woman refugees’ are inducing definitive changes in the underlying attitude of these women and redefining their roles and power
equations within and outside the community.
Afghan refugees in India are heterogeneous in terms of regional, ethnic, linguistic and religious... more Afghan refugees in India are heterogeneous in terms of regional, ethnic, linguistic and religious identities. Based on an ethnographic study conducted over eighteen months in different parts of Delhi, and Delhi National Capitol Region (Henceforth NCR) the paper argues that refugees' everyday processes and acts of space creation involve everyday contestations and negotiations with international care organizations, agents of the Indian nation-state, and the host society. These acts of space creation are reflected in the establishment of religious and community organizations, revival of past institutions, and replication of past cultural festivals. The conscious communitarian act of place making, through the establishment of community associations and religious organizations (e.g., gurudwaras and temples) and the reinvention of past socio-cultural festivals have been marked features of the Afghans' ongoing journey of space creation in India. The paper examines how a place becomes symbolic to a community's common past and how this common past contributes towards the formation of a community identity through institutionalization and historicization of memory. Through such conscious acts of institutionalization of memory, the refugee community builds up its own agency to negotiate with state actors and to create a 'new home' in another land.