Understanding women's land rights: Gender discrimination in ownership/ Prem Chowdhry

Cover ; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Foreword; A Note from the Centre Director; Acknowledgements; 1: Editor's Introduction: Persisting Gender Discrimination in Land Rights ; 2: Land Rights and Land Access to Women in Andhra Pradesh; 3: Engendering Tribal Land Rights for Gendering the Land: A Case Study Among Apatani and Nyishi Communities; 4: Gender Issues in Landownership in Chhattisgarh: Existing Land Laws, Policies, and Practices; 5: Women and Land Rights in the Context of Legal Propertied Equality in Goa. 6: Women Empowerment Through Landownership Rights: Critical Assessment of Their Status in Gujarat; 7: Gendering the Landownership Question in Jammu and Kashmir; 8: Understanding Women and Land Rights in Jharkhand; 9 Land, Land Rights, and Women in Maharashtra; 10: Women's Access and Ownership of Land: A Case of Mizoram State in India; 11: Gender and Land Relations in Nagaland: Emerging Issues; 12: Persisting Inequalities: Gender and Land Rights in Rajasthan; 13: Locating Gender in Land Rights Discourse of Sikkim; 14: Women's Land Rights in the Context of Neo-liberal Tamil Nadu. 15: Gender Justice and Law: A Gender-specific Study of Landownership in Uttarakhand; About the Editor and Contributors; Index; Land Reforms in India.