Banerjee Paula - Women in Indian Borderlands

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Women in Indian
Borderlands

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Women in Indian
Borderlands

Edited by

Paula Banerjee
Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury

Copyright Mahanirban Calcutta Research Group, 2011

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Women in Indian borderlands/edited by Paula Banerjee, Anasua Basu Ray Chaudhury.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. WomenIndiaSocial conditions. 2. Women immigrantsIndiaSocial conditions. 3. BorderlandsSocial aspectsIndia. I. Banerjee, Paula. II. Basu Ray Chaudhury, Anasua

HQ1742.W66566 305.40954 ' 1dc23 2011 2011018816

ePUB ISBN: 978-81-321-0650-0 (HB)

The Sage Team: Elina Majumdar, Sonalika Rellan, Mathew P. J. and Deepti Saxena

This volume is an outcome of a research programme supported by the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR). The support of the ICSSR is kindly acknowledged. The views expressed here are of the authors and editors.

Contents

This volume is an outcome of a two-year-long research programme on Globalization, Democracy, Citizenship, Gender and Peace Studies conducted by the Calcutta Research Group. This broad research programme has two segments namely, Globalization and Sustainability of Rights and Women and Borders in South Asia. As a research collective that works on issues of women and borders in South Asia in general and women and Indian borderlands in particular, the CRG undertook this particular segment dealing into women and borders in order to take a hard look at the interface of gender and democracy.

We have accumulated numerous debts in preparing this volume. We are really thankful to Bhaskar Chakraborty, Bharati Ray, Rekha Chowdhary, Sanjukta Bhattacharya, N.Vijaylakshmi Brara, Gina Sangkham, Kheseli Chishi, Ritu Menon, Asha Hans, Bodhisattva Kar, Subhoranjan Dasgupta, Pradip Kumar Bose, T.C.A Anant, Pradeep Bhargava, Sharit Bhowmik, Bhupinder Brar, Partha Chatterjee, Sanjay Chaturvedi, Kalpana Kannabiran, Dipankar Sinha and Virginius Xaxa. Their valuable suggestions have helped the authors and editors of this volume to shape their ideas in finer ways. We have no words to express our gratitude to Ranabir Samaddar, who has taken the pain to go through each of the articles. His constant support, encouragement and criticism have enriched our research. We express our sincere gratitude to him. This volume may not have appeared without the editorial assistance of Purna Banerjee and we thank her for that.

We also thank our colleagues, Samir Kumar Das, Sabyasachi Basu Ray Chaudhury, Ishita Dey, Supurna Banerjee, Sutirtha Bedajna, Rajat Kanti Sur, Geetisha Dasgupta and Sucharita Sengupta, for helping us in various ways in preparing this volume. We would also like to thank Samaresh Guchhait for designing the web segment of the research programme. Without the assistance of our administrative staff, we would not have been able to finish this study in time.

This work has been possible due to the generous support of the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR). We are thankful to the then chairperson of the ICSSR, Javeed Alam, and other members of the ICSSR. We would also like to put on record our thanks to the ICSSR office, in particular G.S. Saun, for his constant advice and support that facilitated the research programme. We also thank the members of the mid-term appraisal team, R.S. Deshpande, Vasanthi Raman and Chairman of the Appraisal Team, Apurba Kumar Baruah, in particular, whose suggestions and recommendations helped us in improving the papers. We also thank all the contributors of this volume. Our happiness in associating with the Sage Publications increases with every venture.

We hope that this volume will help those who work on feminism, partition, displacement and also those who strive to put an end to racist, sexist and militarist domination in the borderlands of this region and elsewhere.