Violence against Women in India: An Intersectional Approach to Human Rights

Abstract

Violence is physical and mental harassment which manifests in the forms of torture, harm, untouchably, insult, abuses, brutality, and many times in subtle forms. The women are generally suffered from this kind of violence not only in India and also in the entire world albeit reasons and forms of violence differ from regions to regions. The intersectional approach suggests that we will have to look at multiple forms of oppression and treat women as a heterogeneous category where factors like caste, class, region, locality, and language, and many others affects women in different ways and there is no single or only one form of oppression. For instance, the problem of Dalit women is completely different from upper-caste women.