The status of women among the scheduled tribes in India

Journal of Socio-Economics

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1202-1217

  Mitra, Aparna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

Author keywords

Gender discrimination; Gender empowerment; Gender equality; Scheduled tribes; Tribal women in India

Indexed keywords

EID: 43049162352     PISSN: 10535357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2006.12.077     Document Type: Article

References (28)

1. Basu S.K. Health status of tribal women in India: educational implications. Social Change 23 4 (1993)
2. Berreman G.D. Sanskritization as female oppression in India. In: Miller B.D. (Ed). Sex and Gender Hierarchies (1993), Cambridge University Press
3. Census of India, 1981.
4. Census of India, 2001.
5. Chaudhuri N.C. Womanhood in tribal India. Tribal Women in India (1978), Indian Anthropological Society, Calcutta
6. Chaudhuri R.P. Child mortality determinants among two tribes of Rajmahal Hills (Bihar). Indian Journal of Physical Anthropology and Human Genetics (1988) 14
7. Davis K. The Population of India and Pakistan (1951), Princeton University Press, Princeton
8. Dyson T., and Moore M. On Kinship Structure, Female Autonomy, and Demographic Behavior in India. Population and Development Review 9 1 (1983)
9. Elwin, V., 1961. Nagaland. Shillong: The Research Dept., Adviser's Secretariat.
10. Von Furer-Haimendorf C. Naked Nagas (1933), Thacker, Spink and Co, Calcutta
11. Ghurye G.S. The Scheduled Tribes of India (1980), Transaction Books, New Brunswick, NJ
12. Hutton J.H. The Sema Nagas (1921), Oxford University Press
13. Kishor S. May god give sons to all: gender and child mortality in India. American Sociological Review 58 2 (1993)
14. Maharatna, A., 1998. On Tribal Fertility in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century India, Working Paper Series No. 98.01, Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Harvard University.
15. Maharatna A. Fertility, mortality and gender bias among tribal population: an Indian perspective. Social Science and Medicine (2000) 50
16. Maharatna A. Demographic Perspectives on Indian Tribes (2005), Oxford University Press
17. Malhotra A., Vanneman R., and Kishor S. Fertility, dimensions of patriarchy, and development in india. Population and Development Review 21 2 (1995)
18. Nag M. A Demographic Study of the Kanikkar of Travancore, (2) vol. 3 (1954), Bulletin of the Dept. of Anthropology
19. Pakrasi K., and Manna S. Socio economic factors influencing breast-feeding and weaning of infants by tribal mothers in West Bengal. Indian Journal of Physical Anthropology and Human Genetics 15 (1989)
20. Ray A.K., and Roth E. Indian tribal fertility patterns from Orissa. Man in India 71 1 (1991)
21. Roy B., 1987. Development and Tribal Women of India. Mainstream, 19 & 20, November 25.
22. Sarkar J.M. Some demographic traits of Bhils and Garasia: a comparative study, in genetical demography of Indian population (1989), Anthropological Survey of India, Calcutta
23. Saxena R.P. In: Firma K.L. (Ed). Tribal Economy in Central India (1964), Mukhapadhyay, Calcutta
24. Singh K.S. The Scheduled Tribes (1994), Oxford University Press
25. Srinivas M.N. The changing position of Indian women. Man 12 (1977)
26. Thamizoli P. Gender inequality, tribal and caste women, past and present: a case study of the Nilgiries, Tamil Nadu. Man in India 77 1 (1997)
27. Verma K.K. Culture, Ecology and Population: An Anthropo-Demographic Study (1977), National Publishers, New Delhi
28. Von Furer-Haimendorf C. The Chenchus: Jungle Folk of the Deccan (1943), Macmillan, London