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Volume 37, Number 1, January-June - Special Issue on the
Ethnography
of Healing Guest Editor: Laurent Pordie |
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Violence and Dalit Women’s
Resistance in Rural Bihar by Sumit S. Srivastava
The present study analyses the participation of dalit women in
the naxalite movement in Bihar as a strategy of their
empowerment and liberation from gender exploitation and
patriarchy. The overlapping categories of caste along with class
are of prime importance in our study. The broad objectives of
the study are to explore experiences of violence and in response
to it the nature and viability of gendering naxalite movement in
Bihar. Such modes of resistance encounter different set of
oppression and sites. The issues of participation are those of
equal land rights and recourse to retaliation in cases of
violation of dignity and violence. Similarly, the ‘othering’ of
dalit women seen in the targeted killings of these women in
massacres by landed gentry is also explored. In conclusion, the
study argues that there are multiple forms of violence which
require that gender and violence to be critically interpreted in
the framework of caste. Most importantly, the resistance to
violence by dalit women in Bihar aims to negotiate sexual
exploitation and patriarchy thereby enhancing their
functionalities to the optimum.
Key Words: Bihar, Violence, Dalit Women, Naxalite
Movement. |
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