Custom and the Courts: ensuring women's rights to land, Jharkhand, India

Rao, Nitya ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6318-0147 (2007) Custom and the Courts: ensuring women's rights to land, Jharkhand, India. Development and Change, 38 (2). pp. 299-319. ISSN 0012-155X

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Abstract

Based on field research in Dumka district, Jharkhand, this article examines the mechanisms through which women operationalize their rights to land. It questions the polarization of legitimation systems into statutory codes and customary practices, as operating independent of each other, and demonstrates the political and temporal situatedness of ‘law’, and the processes of hybridization that allow for the actualization of a legal right, by providing it social recognition and validity. The article explores the choice of different arenas by women for making their claims, with the choice of a particular arena depending not just on access and resource availability, but also on the women's social positionality.

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information:	mid:14087 dc:ueastatus:post-print formatted dc:ueahesastaffidentifier:0211170000866
Uncontrolled Keywords:	sdg 5 - gender equality ,/dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/gender_equality
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences Faculty of Science > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research University of East Anglia Research Groups/Centres > Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Literacy and Development Group Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Life Course, Migration and Wellbeing Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Health and Disease Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Gender and Development Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Gender and Its Intersections
Depositing User:	Vishal Gautam
Date Deposited:	01 Mar 2007
Last Modified:	18 Jun 2026 15:25
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/16372
DOI:	10.1111/j.1467-7660.2007.00413.x

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