Prem Chowdhry is an Indian social scientist, historian,[2] and Senior Academic Fellow at the Indian Council of Historical Research, New Delhi.[3] She is a feminist[4] and critic of violence against couples refusing arranged marriages.[5]
Prem Chowdhry | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1944[1] India |
| Occupation | Academic, activist, artist |
| Nationality | Indian |
She is a well-known scholar of gender studies, authority on the political economy and social history of Haryana state in India.[6][7]
Career
editChowdhry is a Life Member of the Center for Women Studies.[8][9] She has also worked at the Indian Council of Social Science Research supported Centre for Contemporary Studies, New Delhi; an advanced studies unit of Nehru Memorial Museum & Library.[10]
Chowdhry is an alumna of Jawaharlal Nehru University,[11] and professorial fellow of the University Grants Commission.
She has provided expert commentary to news media, including to The Guardian about the impact of prejudice against having a daughter in India;[12] to The Guardian,[13] Associated Press,[14] TIME,[15] and Reuters[16] about "honour killings"; to The Statesman about the Haryana social structure;[17] to NPR about the Haryana social structure and how it relates to the rape of Dalit women;[18] to The Indian Express about the political history of Indian cinema;[19] and to Reuters about inheritance rights for women in India.[20] Her 2004 Modern Asian Studies article "Private Lives, State Intervention: Cases of Runaway Marriage in Rural North India" was cited by the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada in 2006.[21]
She has also written commentary in The Tribune, including about violence related to inter-caste marriages,[22] and advocacy for an investment in the education of girls to reduce poverty.[23]
Art career
editChowdhry is a self-taught artist[24][25] whose painting are held by the National Gallery, India[citation needed] and the Lalit Kala Akademi, India's National Academy of Fine Arts. She started exhibiting in 1970 and her paintings often reflect on the status of women in India.[26][27]
Works
editBooks
edit- Chowdhry, Prem (1984). Punjab politics: the role of Sir Chhotu Ram. Vikas/University of Michigan. p. 364. ISBN 978-0706924732.
- Chowdhry, Prem (1994). The Veiled Women: Shifting Gender Equations In Rural Haryana. Oxford University Press India. ISBN 978-0195670387.
- Chowdhry, Prem (2000). Colonial India and the Making of Empire Cinema: Image, Ideology and Identity. Manchester University Press. p. 294. ISBN 978-0719057922.
- Chowdhry, Prem (July 2009). Contentious Marriages, Eloping Couples: Gender, Caste, and Patriarchy in Northern India. Oxford University Press. p. 360. ISBN 978-0198063612.
- Chowdhry, Prem (2010). Gender Discrimination in Land Ownership. Sage Publications. p. 314. ISBN 978-8178299426.
- Chowdhry, Prem (2011). Political Economy of Production and Reproduction. Oxford University Press. p. 464. ISBN 9780198067702.
- Chowdhry, Prem (2011). Understanding Politics And Society – Hardwari Lal. Manak publications. p. 423. ISBN 978-8178312279.
Papers
edit- Chowdhry, Prem (28 November 1987). "Socio-economic dimensions of certain customs and attitudes: women of Haryana in the colonial period". Economic and Political Weekly. 22 (48): 2060–2066. JSTOR 4377793.
- Chowdhry, Prem (1990). "Alternative to the Sati model: perceptions of a social reality in folklore". Asian Folklore Studies. 49 (2): 259–274. doi:10.2307/1178036. JSTOR 1178036.
- Chowdhry, Prem (25 December 1993). "High participation, low evaluation: women and work in rural Haryana". Economic and Political Weekly. 28 (52): A–135–A–137 and A–140–A–148. JSTOR 4400591.
- Chowdhry, Prem (1996). "Conjugality, law and state: inheritance rights as pivot of control in Northern India". Indo-British Review. 21 (1): 59–72. OCLC 193906854.
- Chowdhry, Prem (April–June 1996). "Contours of communalism: religion, caste and identity in South-East Punjab". Social Scientist. 24 (4/6): 130–163. doi:10.2307/3517794. JSTOR 3517794.
- Chowdhry, Prem (24 August 1996). "Marriage, sexuality and the female 'ascetic': understanding a Hindu sect". Economic and Political Weekly. 31 (34): 2307–2321. JSTOR 4404549.
- Chowdhry, Prem (10 May 1997). "Enforcing cultural codes: gender and violence in Northern India". Economic and Political Weekly. 32 (19): 1019–1028. JSTOR 4405393.
- Chowdhry, Prem (February 2000). "Propaganda and protest: the myth of the Muslim menace in an empire film (The Drum, 1938)". Studies in History. 16 (1): 109–130. doi:10.1177/025764300001600105. S2CID 159486594.
- Chowdhry, Prem (January–July 2001). "Lustful women, elusive lovers identifying males as objects of female desire". Indian Journal of Gender Studies. 8 (1): 23–50. doi:10.1177/097152150100800102. S2CID 143881077.
- Chowdhry, Prem (3 December 2005). "Crisis of masculinity in Haryana: the unmarried, the unemployed and the aged". Economic and Political Weekly. 40 (49): 5189–5198. JSTOR 4417491.
- Chowdhry, Prem (31 July 2010). "Women in the army". Economic and Political Weekly. 45 (31).
Personal life
editShe is the daughter of Hardwari Lal,[28] the educationist and Indian National Congress member of parliament for Haryana.[29]
References
edit- ^ Central Administrative Tribunal – Delhi
- ^ Different Types of History Part 4 of History of science, philosophy and culture in Indian civilization. Ray, Bharati. Pearson Education India, 2009. ISBN 8131718182,
- ^ Sage Publishing: Prem Chowdhry Affiliations
- ^ Anagol, Padma (2005). The Emergence of Feminism in India, 1850–1920. Ashgate Publishing Company. ISBN 9780754634119.
- ^ 'Khaps Have To Reform', Sheela Reddy, Outlook India, July 2010
- ^ Geetha, V. (11 June 2012). "Power, violence and Dalit women". The Hindu. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
her study would have been richer had she placed it in the context of feminist scholarship — one thinks of Prem Chowdhry's fantastic work on changing gender relations in Haryana, for instance, and how she works with notions of caste, gender, labour and economic change.
- ^ Oxford University Press
- ^ India Court of Women on Dowry and Related Forms of Violence against Women, 2009 [1]
- ^ "Centre for Women's Development Studies". Archived from the original on 26 August 2013. Retrieved 6 June 2013.CWDS About Us Archived 5 November 2013 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Law and Social Science Research Network, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library 2008 [2]
- ^ JNU Alumni Association Archived 3 March 2013 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Ramesh, Randeep (28 July 2007). "Foetuses aborted and dumped secretly as India shuns baby girls". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
- ^ Burke, Jason (25 June 2010). "Triple murder in India highlights increase in 'honour killings'". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
- ^ George, Nirmala (12 July 2010). "Divorce or die -- old rules clash with new India". Boston.com. Associated Press. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
- ^ Singh, Madhur (25 May 2010). "Why Are Hindu Honor Killings Rising in India?". TIME. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
- ^ Denyer, Simon (15 May 2008). "Indian village proud after double "honor killing"". Reuters. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
- ^ Gursoy, Rabia; Jalali, Falah (24 August 2020). "Black and white selfies on social media bring awareness to violence against women". The Statesman. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
- ^ McCarthy, Julie (8 February 2013). "Outside The Big City, A Harrowing Sexual Assault In Rural India". NPR. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
- ^ Rathi, Nandini (11 August 2017). "1930s imperial propaganda: How star-studded western films justified British colonialism". The Indian Express. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
- ^ "As property prices rise, more Indian women claim inheritance". Mint. Reuters. 13 March 2019. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
- ^ "RESPONSES TO INFORMATION REQUESTS (RIRs)" (PDF). www.justice.gov. Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada. 9 January 2006. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
- ^ Chowdhry, Prem (19 July 2019). "Violence around inter-caste marriages". The Tribune. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
- ^ Chowdhry, Prem (11 February 2020). "Invest in education for girls to reduce poverty". The Tribune. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
- ^ Chowdhry, Prem (artist) (2008). Scarlet Woman (Painting: oil on canvas, for use on front cover of academic journal Signs, autumn 2010). Chicago Journals. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
- ^ Chowdhry, Prem (Autumn 2010). "Illustration". Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. 36 (1): Front cover. doi:10.1086/651184. JSTOR 10.1086/651184.
- ^ Salwat, Ali (1 February 2008). "The Art of Dialogue". Newsline Magazine. Retrieved 21 February 2015.
- ^ Jayetilleke, Rohan (2 June 2004). "Prem Chowdry explores life". Daily News. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
- ^ Reformist revisited, Humra Quraishi, The Tribune India. 27 March 2011
- ^ [3] Social Scientist. v 21, no. 244-46 (Sept–Nov 1993) p. 112
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