Drawing on case studies of the Communist Party of India in West Bengal and Shramik Sangathana in Maharashtra, this work examines Indian women's political activism. Investigating institutional changes at the state level and protest at the village level, Amrita Basu traces the paths of two kinds of political activism among these women. With insights gleaned from extensive interviews with activists, government officials, and ordinary men and women, she finds that militancy has been fueled by pronounced sexual class cleavages combined with potentially rancorous ethnic division.
- ISBN10 0520065069
- ISBN13 9780520065062
- Publish Date 31 December 1992
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 8 February 1996
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of California Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 318
- Language English