My Books
Dowry is a Serious Economic Violence: Rethinking Dowry Law in India (2023) Amazon
This book is about the prevailing practices of dowry, its mechanisms, and the dowry laws as they exist in India. It argues that the practice of dowry is evolving in the commercialized neoliberal while the law has failed to keep pace with the socio-economic changes. Dowry, as it is practiced today, involves gruesome forms of economic violence, including extortion, blackmail, and exploitation of women and their families. The current legal framework ignores this triad of oppression consisting of compulsive, arbitrary dowry demands, coercion, and dowry-related violence, and therefore, it suggests rethinking the socio-legal discourse surrounding dowry in India.
Domestic Violence Law in India: Myth and Misogyny 9 July 2021 Routledge
his book examines the prevailing legal discourse surrounding domestic violence law in India. It investigates the myths, patriarchal stereotypes, and misconceptions that undermine the process of justice and dilute legal provisions to the detriment of survivors.
The volume:
Develops arguments based on legal case studies and draws extensively on knowledge from various fields of study, as well as the experience of women survivors.
Examines fallacies within the legal framework through a study of strategic lawsuits against public participation suits within the Indian context.
Proposes measures for a fair and more gender inclusive legal system that focuses on facilitating access to justice.
Suggests that emphasis be laid on establishing the rule of law and eliminating the culture of violence.
A key text on gender and law in India, this book will be indispensable to scholars and researchers of socio-legal studies, law, gender, human rights, women’s studies, social science, political science, and feminist jurisprudence in South Asia. It will also be of interest to NGOs, activists, and lawyers.
Women and Domestic Violence Law in India: A Quest for Justice 4 September 2019
This book critically examines domestic violence law in India. It focuses on women’s experiences and perspectives as victims and litigants, with regard to accessibility to law and justice. It also reflects on the manner in which the legal process reproduces gender hierarchies.
This volume:
- Analyzes the legal framework from a gender perspective to pinpoint the inherent stereotypes, prejudices and discriminatory practices that come into play while interpreting the law;
- Includes in-depth interviews and case studies, and explores critical themes such as marriage, rights, family, violence, property and the state;
- Presents alternatives beyond the domain of law, such as qualitative medical care and legal aid facilities, shelter homes, short-stay homes, childcare facilities, and economic and social security provisions to survivors and their children.
Drawing on extensive testimonies and ethnographic studies situated in a theoretical framework of law, this book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of law, gender, human rights, women’s studies, sociology and social anthropology, and South Asian studies.
Domestic Violence in India: What One Should Know?: (A Resource Book) 2008
We the People
this book is written with the object of demystifying the law relating to domestic violence in India. Domestic violence is a complex phenomenon, but this book looks at the issue with an integrated approach and attempts to address its multi-dimensional perspectives. It puts together the social, psychological, and legal dimensions of domestic violence and seeks to dispel the taboos and myths surrounding the same.
About your Right to Information: ( Simplified ) 2008 2nd edition
We the People
he second edition of this book is written in 2008 with the object of compiling and disseminating information about the issue of the `right to know' to ordinary citizens in a simple manner. This book seeks to answer what, when, how, and why of the right to information, It also looks at the experience regarding how this law is formulated in India, how the information commission has been established and it also examines some of the decisions.
Coauthored
The Founding Mothers
1 January 2016
Media House
The book titled “The Founding Mothers of the Constitution of India” is a tribute to The 15 Founding Mothers of the Constitution as well as to all women/mothers, who struggle for space and equality in all arena of life and mission of the nation.
