Author Index
Abraham, Leena, 171
ActionAid, 122,125,126,128,129
Agarwala, S.N., 39
Age of Consent Bill/Act, 23-29,197 Ahluwalia, Amrita, 42 Alborn, Thomas, 118
All India Democratic Women’s
Association (AIDWA), 42
All India Muslim Ladies Conference, 29 All India Women’s Conference (AIWC), 29,32
Allen, Gina, 89
Allendorf, Keera, 124, 183
Ambedkar, Babasaheb (B.R.), 29, 36,
40, 181,184
Ameena, 42-43,143
Amin, Sajeda, 4, 151
Anagol, Padma 24
Andrist, Lester 124,125,151-152
Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 156
Ansell, A. 66
Apni Beti Apni Dhan 111
Aries, Philippe 58-62, 65
Arnett, J. 89
Asia Floor Wage Alliance 164
Bagchi, Jasodhara 109-110 Balagopalan, Sarada 155-156 Banerjee, Abhijit 183
Banerji, Manjistha 151-152
Bannerji, Himani 26
Bardhan, Pranab 41 Barlow, Tani E. 79, 90-91 Basu, Srimati 150, 153-154 Baxi, Pratiksha 106,107 Baxi, Upendra 101
Beach, Steve 73 Belsky, Jay 84
Berenbaum, Sheri 89
Berik, Guenseli 80
Berlant, Lauren 68
Bettie, Julie 92
Bhagat, R.B. 119-120,125,183-184
Bhandarkar, R.G. 21-22
Bhanwari Devi 44-46,143
Bharat 45
Bharatiya Muslim Mahila Andolan 107
Bhatia, Rajani 39-40
Bhattacharya, Ravik 195-196
Bhattacharya, S.S. 20
Bhog, Dipta 43, 169-170
Bichhieri, Christina 177-179
Biro, Frank M. 84
Blackstone, William 56, 75
Boyle, Shobhana 113
Brewer, Holly 56, 64-67, 69
Brown, Sally 87
Burman, Erica 70
Burra, Neera 160-162
Caldwell, Bruce K. 90
Caldwell, John C. 90
Caldwell, Pat 90
Caputo, Virginia 71
Carroll, Lucy 18
Castaneda, Claudia 68
Chakravarti, Uma 14, 20, 22
Chakravarty, Deepita 125,130,
162-163
Chakravarty, Ishita 163
Chanana, Karuna 30, 41, 155
Chandra, Sudhir 22
Chandrabati 14
Chandranna Peli Kanuka 111
Chandrasekhar, C.P. 167
Chatterjee, Bhaswati 29
Chatterjee, Esha 183
Chatterjee, Partha 19—21
Chaudhuri, Maitrayee 35
Chen, Xi-Juan 86
Cherlin, Andrew 73-74
Child Marriage Restraint Act (CMRA) 30-33,37,42-43,100, 102-104, 136
Chowdhry, Prem 18
Committee on the Status of Women in
India (CSWI) 37-39
Convention around the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) 70
Convention on the Rights to the Child (CRC) 66, 70,160
Coontz, Stephanie 52-56, 72-74
Council for Child Welfare
Tamil Nadu 164
Cousins, Margaret 29
CREA 173
Criminal Law Amendment Act 2013 106
Croll, Elisabeth 81
Cunningham, Hugh 58, 60, 64-65
Dandekar, Kumudini 39
Das, Abhijit 176-177
Das Gupta, Monica 81
Das, Maitreyi 4,151,183
Datta, Ranjana 12
Demos, John 87
Demos, Virginia 87
Department of Women and Child
Development 109
Desai, Neera 36
Desai, Sonalde 124,125,129, 151-152,183
Deshpande, G.P. 20, 24
Dhagamwar, Vasudha 101
Dhanalakshmi 111
Diamond, Lisa M. 89
Dickens, Charles 63
Dixon-Mueller, Ruth 91
Dong, Madeleine Yue 91-92
Dong, Xiao-Yuan 80
Dorn, Lorah D. 84
Driscoll, Catherine 92
Dube, Leela 148-149
Dubey, Anju 170-171
Duflo, Esther 183
Dutta, Madhumita 164
Ehrlich, Paul 116
Engels, Dagmar 27
Engels, Friedrich 52, 53, 63
Evans-Pritchard, Edward 52
Fasick, Frank 87
Fausto-Sterling, Ann 65
Ferguson, Susan 68
Field, Corinne 74
Fincham, Frank 73
Fincher, Leta Hong 81-82
Fitch, Catherine 74
Flavia, Agnes 35,106,107
Forbes, Geraldine 20, 26, 32, 39,
46-47, 103
Fortes, Meyer 52
Foucault, Michel 61-62
Franco, Kathryn 84
Fraser, Alison 86
Friedan, Betty 72, 76, 93
Galambos, Nancy L. 89
Gandhi, Indira 4Ö, 197
Gandhi, Nandita 41
Geertz, Clifford 52
Ghosh, Anindita 5, 125
Ghosh, Biswajit 125,135-136
Ghosh, Jayati 166, 167
Giddens, Anthony 73
Girl Child Protection Scheme 111
Gluckman, Peter D. 84
Goethe 67
Goli, Srinivas 121,122,125-126, 131,
138,139
Goode, William J. 34
Goody, Jack 55
Gopal, Meena 166-167,175
Gough, Kathleen 52
Govinda, R. 156
Grover, Shalini 152-153
Guha, Jaba 109-110
Guilmoto, Christophe Z. 118
Hajnal, John 54-55,119
Hall, Granville Stanley 13, 84
Hansen, K. 66
Hanson, M. 84
Haq Centre for Child Rights 175-176
Hart, J. 66
Heimsath, C.H. 22
Helgren, Jennifer 92
Hensman, Rohini 3
Herschatter, Gail 80-81
Hindu Code Bill 36-37
Hindu Marriage Act 104
Hochberg, Ze’ev 84
Horii, Hoko 4
Hunter, Isabel 82
Hussain, Sabiha 162
International Centre for Research on Women (ICRW) 116,125, 126,128, 131,136
International Labour Organisation (ILO) 160
Jackson, Sandy 89
Jain, Neha 139
Jaising, Indira 107
James, Allison 66-67
James, K.S. 183-184
Jandhyala, Kameshwari 159
Jayalalitha 111
Jejeebhoy, Shireen 137-138,171
Jenks, Chris 66-67
Jin, Tianhe 79
John, Mary E. 3,6, 41, 89, 140-141,166-167,180-181, 186, 194, 198
Johns, Charlie 75
Kalpagam, U. 153
Kalyan Lakshmi 111
Kannabiran, Kalpana 41, 44-45, 105, 125, 156-157
Kannan, K.R 167
Kanyashree 111
Kapadia, K.M. 13-14
Karkal, Malini 39
Karl, Rebecca 79
Karlekar, Malavika 20
Karve, D.K. 14
Karve, Irawati 14-15
Kaur, Rajkumari Amrit 29
Kaur, Ravinder 81, 150-151,180
Kelkar, Raghunath 101
Khan, Lakhija 196
Khan, Nizamuddin 126
Khanna, Renu 175-176
Kidwai, Azra 16
Ko, Dorothy 79
Komulainen, Sirkka 66
Kosambi, Meera 20-25
Krishnan, Kavita 164
Kuhn, Dianna 88
Kumar, Krishna 41,106,107,154-155
Kumar, Radha 41
Kumar, Sanjay 121,122,125,127-129
Kumarbabu, Girija 164
Kumari, Ranjana 170-171
Ladli 111
Lal, Ruby 16, 68
Laslett, Peter 55, 56
Leach, Edmund 52
Leacock, Eleanor 52, 53
League of Nations 30
Lee-Rife, S. 173
Leonard, M. 66
Li, Xiaojiang 81
Li, Yuan 82
Liebel, Manfred 66
Liefen, G.K. 160
Liu, Lydia 79
Lloyd, Cynthia 91
Loto, O.M. 86-87
Louis XIII 61
Low, Felicia 84
Lowy, Rochelle 87
Luc, Goosens 89
Malabari, Behramji 24, 33
Male, Chata 116,118
Malhotra, A. 173
Malthus 116
Mani, Lata 17
Mao (Chairman) 80
Marx, Karl 63
Masselos, Jim 22
Mathur, Kanchan 44
Mayo, Katherine 31, 75-76,197
Mazumdar, Indrani 183
Mazumdar, Vina 37, 46
McHale, Susan M. 89
Mead, Margaret 53
Mehra, Madhu 106,107,194
Meier, Ann 89
Menon, Purnima 140-141
Menon, Ritu 41
Min, Dongchao 80
Minault, Gail 20
Ministry of Women and Child Development (MWCD) 1, 111, 169-170
Mishra, Jayanthi 12
Mishra, Rakesh 123
Mishra, Sujit Kumar 156-157
Mitra, Asok 41
Mitra, Atri 195-196
Mitra, Durba 5-6
Molla 14
Mondal, Bidisha 166
Mullick, Disha 169-170
Murugesan, Radha 164
MV Foundation 105, 157,161
Naickar, E.V. Ramaswamy 32
Naidu, Sarojini 29
Nair, Janaki 18,27, 33-34
Nambissan, Geetha 159
Nanda, Priya 111
National Commission for the
Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR) 105, 111, 120-123,125,126, 129-131
National Family Health Survey 9
National Strategy Document on
Prevention of Child Marriage 110-111
Neetha, N. 167, 183, 186
Nehru, Jawaharlal 35
Neopane, Sumanta 140-141
Nguyen, Phuong Hong 140-141
Nirantar Trust 125,174-175
Nishat, Jameela 42
O’Hanlon, Rosalind 20
Orme, Nicholas 60
Overeem, Pauline 164
Paine, Thomas 20
Palriwala, Rajni 69, 150-151,180,186
Pande, Ishita 5, 27-28, 33,40
Pandian, Roshan K. 124, 183
Pappu, Rekha 20,183,186
Parashar, Archana 36
Partners for Law in Development
(PLD) 105, 108, 173
Pateman, Carole 72
Patton, George 84
Periyar 32
Phule, Jotirao 16, 21, 24-25, 28-29, 33
Phulmonee 25-27, 57,106
Planning Commission 125
Poiger, Uta 91-92
Ponniah, Ujithra 111-112
Popenoe, David 73
Population Council 39,125,172
Prevention of Child Marriage Act (PCMA) 104-105,108-109,157,174
Prevention of Child Sexual Offenses
Act (POCSO) 106, 194
Prout, Alan 66-67
Punch, Samantha 67
Qichao, Liang 79
Raatikainen, Kaisa 86
Raj, Anita 137
Rajan, Ishwarya 164
Rajshree 111
Raju, Saraswati 180
Rakhmabai 22-23, 57
Ramabai, Pandita Sarasvati 24, 40
Ramachandran, Vimala 159
Ramakrishna Paramahamsa 14
Ramamurthy, Preeti 91-92
Raman, Vasanthi 160
Ramberg, Lucinda 153-154
Rammohan, Anu 138
Ramusack, Barbara 30
Ranade, M.G. 14
Rao, Anupama 3
Rao, Srinivas 159
Ratnam, Anita 175
Raveendran, G. 167
Reddy, Muthulakshmi 29-30
Rich, Adrienne 6, 69
Rinchin 3
Rosen, Rachel 70-71
Roussel, Louis 74
Rowena, Jenny 45-46
Roy, Kumkum 12
Roy, Nilanjana 111-112
Roy, Raja Rammohan 16,17,21
Ruggles, Steven 74
Sabla Scheme 169-170
Sagade, Jaya 40,103-104,113
Sagar, Alpana 180
Saheli 43
Samiuddin, Abida 42,43
Samvada 175
Santhya, K.G. 137-138,172-173
Saraswathi, TS. 12, 84, 91
Sarda Act 32-34, 106,120
Sarda, Rai Sahib Harbilas 32
Sarkar, Lotika 101
Sarkar, Sumit 20
Sarkar, Tanika 20, 25-26, 28
Savitribai Phule 21
Scheper-Hughes, Nancy 58
Schneider, David 52
Schneider, Melissa 79
Scott, Samuel 140-141
Sebastian, Mary Philip 171
Sekher,TV. Ill
Sen, Amartya 2,41,110
Sen, Chiranjib 166
Sen, Gita 166
Sen, Nabaneetha Dev 14—15
Sen, Samita 5, 30,125, 163-164
Sengupta, Nilanjana 163-164
Sengupta, Piyali 109-110
Sengupta, Sunil 41
Seth, Sanjay 19
Shaadi Mubarak 111
Shah Bano 43
Shah, Chayanika 3
Shah, K.T. 35
Shah, Nandita 41
Shakespeare, William 55
Sharma, Kumud 37, 38, 167
Sharma, Ursula 149-150
Singh, Deepti 138
Singh, Renu 137
Singh, Renuka 170-171
Singha, Radhika 26-27
Sinha, Mrinalini 20, 31-32
Sinha, Shanta 157
Sodhi, Geeta 171
Solanki, Gayatri 105-106
Sommerville, John 58, 62-64, 88
Special Marriages Act 1954 39
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty 4
Srinivasan, K. 183-184
Srinivasan, Padmavathi 123,124,
126,131
Stacey, Judith 70, 73
Steedman, Carolyn 67-68
Stevens-Simon, Catherine 87
Stoker, Charles E. 74, 77
Sujaya, C.P. 37, 38,167
Sumangali Scheme 164
Summerfield, Gale 80
Summers, Lawrence 89
Sunder Rajan, Rajeswari 42-43
Susman, Elisabeth 84
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2,5,113
Swaminathan, Padmini 183
Swinburne, Henry 57
Syrett, Nicholas 57, 74-77
Tambe, Ashwini 5, 30—31, 39-40
Tata Institute of Social Sciences 175
Theuws, Martje 164
Thomas, Lynn M. 91-92
Thorne, Barrie 67
Tilak, B.G. 22
Tindall, Kay M. 67
Towards Equality Report 37-40,
100, 167
Tran, Lan Mei 140-141
Twamley, Katherine 70-71
Uberoi, Patricia 149-150
Uecker, Jeremy 74, 77
Uma, Saumya 107-108
United Nations 2
United Nations Children’s
Fund (UNICEF) 78, 82, 114-115,123, 125,139, 174, 177
United Nations Population
Fund (UNFPA) 1, 5, 71, 90, 114-115,125,139,174, 179
Vanneman, Reeve 124,129
Vasavi, A.R. 159
Vasconcellos, Colleen A. 92
Vashist, Latika 108
Vasudevan, Nitya 175
Velaskar, Padma 159
Vennam, Uma 137
Verma, Ravi 126
Victoria (Queen) 22
Vidyasagar, Pandit
Ishwarchandra 16, 18,21
Vindhya, U. 111-112
Vishakha 45
Weinbaum, Alys Eve 91-92
Williams, Ritch C. Savin 89
Wilson, Adrian 60
Winstead, Eunice 75
Wodon, Quentin 116, 118,136
Wolf, Adrian 79
Wollstonecraft, Mary 69, 93
Women’s Development Programme (WDP) 43-44
Women’s Indian Association 29
Women’s Role in a Planned
Economy (WRPE) 35-36, 181-182
World Bank 43,89,116-117,
125,136, 160
World Population Report 2020 5, 179-180
Xiao, Muyi 82
Yang, Anand A. 17
Yedan, Ali 116,118
Young Lives 105, 111, 120-121,123, 126,129-131
