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Gender, Poverty and Livelihood in the Eastern Himalayas book cover

1st Edition

Gender, Poverty and Livelihood in the Eastern Himalayas

Edited By Sanjoy Hazarika, Reshmi Banerjee Copyright 2018
188 Pages
by Routledge India

204 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

204 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India
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The Eastern Himalaya region covers a geographical area that spans five nations and has diverse landscapes, a multitude of ethnic groups and a rich variety of flora and fauna. The region is relatively poor in terms of GDP and per capita income; industrialisation and infrastructure is under-developed; climate-induced disasters are frequent; and maternal and infant mortality rates are high. Economic... Read more

List of figures. List of tables. List of contributors. Acknowledgements. Introduction 1. The Eastern Himalaya and the Mongoloid Myth 2. Access to Water and Gender Rights in India: Contextualising the Various Debates Through the Study of a Mountain Village in Sikkim 3. Challenges to Women as Food and Risk Managers in the Context of Floods: A Case Study from Tinsukia 4. ‘Constructed’ Images of Gender and Gender Roles in the Northeastern Himalayas: Virtual and Actual 5. Towards a Research Collaboration with Indigenous Communities in India 6. Female MGNREGA Workers and Poverty Reduction in Sikkim 7. Women in the Land of Jade: Issues and Interventions. Index



Biography

Sanjoy Hazarika is the Director of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) and was the founder of the Centre for North East Studies and Policy Research, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India.





Reshmi Banerjee is Academic Visitor at the Asian Studies Centre (Programme on Modern Burmese Studies), St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, UK.

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