Claiming half the sky. Aspects of women's movements in India after independence
This brief discussion of the grass-root movements draw attention to how the leadership in women’s movements has spread among different social classes and categories and is no longer confined within the urban middle class. Women today are participating in the political life of the country in increasing numbers in order to reclaim their space in ‘half the sky’ as citizens of India. Grass-root women’s activism no longer merely looks for largesse from the government; nor are the subaltern women the objects of reforms for well-intentioned upper-classes.