Browsing by Subject "Discrimination"

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Analytical Study of Women Empowerment in the Light of their Social Status, Political Participation and Attainment of Education- A Myth or Reality
(University of North Bengal, 2021-03) Baruah, Jayanta
Since time immemorial women have been deprived of their fundamental rights and liberty. Resulting they are still remain backward. It has been realised that ignoring women participation in politics our democratic government cannot be successful. Hence, women empowerment must get top priority in contemporary time. The Government of India is taking some positive steps for women empowerment. So question arises about women empowerment whether it is myth or reality? In this paper the author will try to examine the status of women in society, attainment of Education, especially higher education and their participation in politics to examine their level of empowerment.
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Caste Marginalization and Resistance: Case of Rajbanshis in North Bengal
(University of North Bengal, 2013-03) Basistha, Nandini
Literally the term ‘Rajbanshi’ means the lineage of the king. But, in reality, the Rajbanshis have been placed in the bottom of the caste hierarchy and have often been victims of discrimination. Starting with a movement for regaining the lost social status of the Rajbanshi community in Hindu society of Bengal, how their activism gradually developed into a more hard-core or confrontational political movement aiming at separate statehood has been discussed in this paper. In addition, the paper discusses in detail how the demands raised, and the modes of agitation, changed over time.
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Equality in difference: an analysis with reference to ‘motherhood’
(University of North Bengal, 2024-03) Datta (Majumdar), Kasturi
Gender discrimination is one of the important topics of Practical Ethics. Any kind of discrimination hinders the growth of society. All human beings deserve equal rights and opportunities irrespective of race, caste, religion, sex. Biological differences of individuals could never be taken as criteria of gender discrimination. Motherhood is considered as glorified aspect of women’s life, but this is a patriarchal ploy to keep women in a cage. Now this is the time when we should re-think our traditional theories in order to assure equality to women.
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Ignored Voices: An Overview of the life of the Women with Disabilities in India.
(University of North Bengal, 2022-12) Das, Tinku
It has been held from ancient times that men and women are not equal. Some socially prescribed identities have been forced onto both genders. Based on people's biological or physiological differences, performances, competence, retention, and other capacities, society has developed some negative conceptions and established some binaries such as normal/abnormal, able/disabled, fit/unfit, etc. In order to oppress women, patriarchal society has created separate standards for men and women. It views women as weak human beings who serve as spouses, mothers, nurses, and sisters. In a culture that is governed by men, women lack freedom and safety. Men have always held a higher standing than women and are still are viewed as more significant than women. There have been different waves of feminism with their own charter of demands regarding women’s rights but there was no particular demand for women with disabilities. It seems that women with disabilities have no purpose in this world and are considered as useless in the society. Even at the very onset the women who struggled for their rights and identities did not raise their voices for women with disabilities. Harlan Hahn, a disability activist and political scientist has observed that disabled women often encounter “asexual objectification”. Though the world of words masculine and feminine are categorized but women with disability have no category and have been deprived and treated as untouchables. The paper discusses this lack of voice in favour of women with disabilities that pushes them towards more uneasy world.
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Swachh Bharat Abhiyan and the challenge of Manual Scavenging
(University of North Bengal, 2016) Dhanraj, Swapnil
The much celebrated Swacch Bharat Abhiyan by the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) completes its third year in 2017. Though the BJP leadership enthusiastically continues to promote the cleanliness campaign, its silence on the practice of manual scavenging raises a serious doubt about its commitment towards making India clean in coming years. It is in this context that, the paper argues that eradication of manual scavenging is the most important step to achieve the objectives of Swacch Bharat Abhiyan. It argues that the aim of clean India would remain impossible without eradication of manual scavenging in India.
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Women and Land-holding Rights in India: Gender Discrimination Riddled with Agony
(University of North Bengal, 2021-09) Khubber, Narinder; Singh, Pardeep
Globally women are deprived of access to land-holding rights and means of production. The discrimination seems pervasive trickling down from top to the bottom of our social fabric of society in India. It goes to an extent, that a family—an agency of the socialization, itself, neglects their daughter/s by keeping her/them away from possession, ownership, succession, inheritance of family property, and by denying equal opportunities for education or employment. There exist many pieces of research in the world pressing upon the need and relevance of securing property and landholding rights for women for empowering them in a real sense. As has been claimed, access to the property and arable land can contribute not only to raising the situation of women rather in education and overall development of the society too. The present study is an attempt to explore various nuances relating to the issue of access to the property by women in India. Existing literature on the topic has been rigorously gone through and highlighted for building a discourse deliberating the need for recognizing property rights for women in India. The paper emphasis how without taking any sympathetic approach towards women empowerment, it is high time to make a call for a right-based approach for women to their landholding rights.