Foreword - Geraldine Forbes
Preface
Introduction
Women and Society
Women and Law
Women and Economy: Marginalization, Alienation and Agency
Changing Patriarchy and Women′s Space in Politics
Conclusion
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
Meeta Deka is Professor and Head of the Department of History at
Gauhati University, Assam, India, where she teaches Colonialism,
and Peasants’ and Workers’ Resistance in Modern India. She taught
History at St. Anthony’s College, Shillong, for 12 years (May
1985–August 1997), after which she joined the present institute.
She is a Life Member of North East India History Association,
Kamarupa Anusandhana Samiti (Assam Research Society), North East
India Social Science Congress, Institute of North East India
Studies, North East Indian Council of Social Science Research,
Indian Association for Women Studies and Centre for Contemporary
Theory.
Born in Shillong, Meghalaya, Deka completed her MPhil and PhD under
the North Eastern Hill University, Shillong. Her specialization is
in Modern Indian History and Northeast India. Her varied research
interests are social movements, including student and peasant
struggles, and Environmental and Gender History. Her publications
include Studen Movements in Assam (1996), besides several papers in
national and international journals.
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