Abstract:Uma Chakravarti is a distinguished feminist activist, historian, teacher and film-maker. She taught at Miranda House, University of Delhi and has been a leading light of India's women's movement(s) for more than forty years. She has written extensively about women's issues ranging from the women characters in mythology, the treatment of upper caste Hindu widows and caste-based violence to state repression and 'sexual governance'. Having witnessed the violence of the Indian partition at a young age, she has alw… Show more
Set email alert for when this publication receives citations?
scite is a Brooklyn-based organization that helps researchers better discover and understand research articles through Smart Citations–citations that display the context of the citation and describe whether the article provides supporting or contrasting evidence. scite is used by students and researchers from around the world and is funded in part by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health.