The political economy of women's empowerment policies in India: Understanding it through the beginning and end of the Mahila Samakhya programme

Jyotsna Jha, Niveditha Menon and Neha Ghatak

No wp-2022-56, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: This paper analyses the political economy of women's-empowerment-related policy-making in India through a re-examination of the context of both the genesis and closure of a major programme, Mahila Samakhya. Mahila Samakhya, which embodied feminist philosophy and pedagogy, started in 1987 with the aim of creating the education-based empowerment of Dalit and Adivasi women in rural India, and was inexplicably shut down in 2014.

Keywords: Women's empowerment; Feminism; Collectivization; Local history; Political economy; Feminist economics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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