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Rethinking Agency

Rethinking Agency

Developmentalism, Gender and Rights

Sumi Madhok

First published 2013 in India

by Routledge

912 Tolstoy House, 1517 Tolstoy Marg, Connaught Place, New Delhi 110 001

Simultaneously published in the UK

by Routledge

2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, OX14 4RN

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

2013 Sumi Madhok

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Bukprint India

B-180A, Guru Nanak Pura, Laxmi Nagar

Delhi 110 092

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage and retrieval system without permission in writing from the publishers.

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ISBN 978-0-415-81192-7

CONTENTS

ANM	Auxiliary Nursing Midwife
BDO	block development officer
BJP	Bharatiya Janata Party
CBI	Central Bureau of Investigation
CID	Crime Investigation Department
DRDPR	Department of Rural Development and Pachayati Raj
DWCRA	Development of Women and Children in Rural Areas
DWDA	District Womens Development Agency
FGC	female genital cutting
FIR	First Information Report
GAD	gender and development
GOR	Government of Rajasthan
IAS	Indian Administrative Service
ICDS	Integrated Child Development Scheme
IDARA	Information Development and Resource Agency
IDS	Institute of Development Studies
IRDP	Integrated Rural Development Programme
MKSS	Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sanghathan
MVK	Mahila Vikas Kendra
PD	Project Director
PHC	Primary Health Centre
PUCL	Peoples Union for Civil Liberties
RAS	Rajasthan Administrative Service
RSS	Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
SP	Superintendent of Police
TRYSEM	Training of Rural Youth for Self-Employment
UNFPA	United Nations Population Fund
VHP	Vishwa Hindu Parishad
WAD	Women and Development
WC&N	Women, Child Development and Nutrition
WDP	Womens Development Programme
WID	Women in Development

Akha Teej: A festival celebrated on the third day of the fortnight of Baisakh, the month of May in the Hindu calendar. The festival is notoriously linked to the custom of child marriages in Rajasthan. The majority of child marriages in the state are performed on this day. While the marriage of non-adults is illegal in India, the law regarding child marriage is weak and largely ignored in rural Rajasthan. The first law outlawing child marriage was enacted by the British colonial state in 1929. This act, popularly known as the Sharda Act, was only amended in 1978. According to the amended act, the legal age of marriage for girls was stated as 18 years and that of boys as 21 years. It made child marriage an offence but stopped short of giving powers to the police to arrest a person without a warrant. Under the act, the punishment for committing child marriage was a simple imprisonment extended to three months and a fine of 1,000 (approximately $20).

annadata: A revered title, literally meaning a provider/giver of food

backward castes: The term refers to those whose ritual rank and occupational status are above the castes deemed as untouchable, but who themselves remain socially and economically depressed. It is also coequal to the terms other backward castes (OBCs) or Shudras, who constitute the fourth major caste category in the caste system.

balatkar: Rape

Bania: An intermediary caste, lying between the higher castes of the Brahmins and the Rajputs and the lower castes of the people known as Dalit(s), traditionally comprising traders and merchants

bigha: A traditional unit of land in South Asia, the bigha varies in size from region to region, although generally held to be less than an acre

block: A term used to mark out a compact group of villages, often about 100 villages, to form a unit for community development or agricultural extension programmes

Chamar(s): A caste of leather workers, they are known as Balais in Bikaner district

chaprasi: Peon

dhani: Hamlet

dhokha: Betrayal

dupatta: Shawl or veil

durrie: Rug

fauji: Military soldier

gauna: A ceremony marking the maturing of the child bride and her being sent away to the home of the bridegroom. It signals familial consent for the consummation of marriage.

ghaghra: Skirt

ghungat/purdah: Terms used interchangeably to allude to the veil observed by mainly rural Rajasthani women

hatai: Meeting pace in the village

haq: Right(s)

Gujjar(s): A caste of mainly cattle breeders, they form the third-most dominant caste group in terms of a military tradition, after the Rajputs

jajam: Literally means a spread blanket, but also used to refer to a space set aside for collective deliberation

jaankari: Knowledge

Jat(s): Traditionally, a land-owning or agricultural caste

jeth (ji): Husbands elder brother, in whose presence a woman must veil herself

jiji: Older sister

kagaj: The official letter informing the sathins of the upcoming meetings and events and their official participants

Khatik(s): Traditionally, a caste of leather workers

Kumhar(s): Traditionally potters by occupation, this caste is classified as a Scheduled Caste

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