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GENDER
AND LEGAL RIGHTS IN LANDED PROPERTY IN INDIA
Bina Agarwal
Rs 60 Pb 1999
81-86706-19-4
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The single most important economic factor affecting
women’s situation is the gender gap in command
over property, an issue virtually neglected in research,
policy and grassroots action. In a detailed discussion
of laws governing property and its inheritance,
the author argues that women’s access to,
and control over, landed property is crucial to
their empowerment. She defines effective rights
as rights in practice, not just in law, and rights
of control as independent of male control and ownership. |
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BINA
AGARWAL
is Professor
of Economics, Institute of Economic Growth,
University of Delhi. She is the author of
A Field of
One’s Own: Gender and Land Rights in
South Asia. |
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