Women in India constitute nearly half of its population of over a billion people, and this book is a rigorous social scientific examination of the issue of viol

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This report documents the dynamics of violence against women in South Asia across the life cycle, from early childhood to old age. It explores the different typ

From an early focus on rape, dowry and sati, feminist struggles against violence on women in India have traversed a wide terrain to include issues that were inv