Advanced Centre for Women's Studies

This study looks at girls participation in the primary education in Bihar and how girl children are excluded from it. It examines the factors responsible for it from secondary data, interviews of girls, teachers, parents and the resource persons of NGOs working with the schools. Based on the primary and secondary data, this study analyses the situation of primary education in Bihar looking at the “picture from below”.

The bio-physical and bio-chemical construction of body is unable is explain the chronic pain and experience associated with it. The pain is rooted in cultural and experience of the afflicted, and thus, can be understood better by a combination of scientific as well as post modernist analysis.

An analytical model has been developed to study the nuclear-coupled density-wave instability in the Indian advanced heavy water reactor (AHWR) which is a natural circulation pressure tube type boiling water reactor. The model considers a point kinetics model for the neutron dynamics and a lumped parameter model for the fuel thermal dynamics along with the conservation equations of mass, momentum and energy and equation of state for the coolant. In addition, to study the effect of neutron interactions between different parts of the core, the model considers a coupled multipoint kinetics equation in place of simple point kinetics equation. Linear stability theory was applied to reveal the instability of in-phase and out-of-phase modes in the boiling channels of the AHWR. The results indicate that the stability behavior of the reactor is greatly influenced by the void reactivity coefficient, fuel time constant, radial power distribution and channel inlet orificing. The delayed neutrons were found to have a strong influence on the Type I and Type II instabilities observed at low and high channel powers, respectively. Also, it was found that the coupled multipoint kinetics model and the modal point kinetics model predict the same threshold power for out-of-phase instability if the coupling coefficient in the former model is half the eigen value separation between the fundamental and the first harmonic mode in the latter model. Decay ratio maps were predicted considering various operating parameters of the reactor, which are useful for its design.

This paper tries to look at the normative body image, how it is constructed and goes on on to become the norm. Further, it tries to elucidate how ‘abnormal’ is constructed in opposition to it. The paper attempts to not only look at the construction of the of the abnormal but to explore the transition of the deviant or the anomalous to abnormal and finally becoming pathological. What are the contributions of individual as well as science in the conversion of the anomalous to the pathological? The last part of the paper tries to examine, very briefly, ‘cure’ locating it in various socio -political and economic power structures.

In this paper, attempts are made to explore how Jain philosophy promote acceptance of differences hence, peace and multiculturalism. Discussing the doctrines of Karma, Anekantavada, Syadavada and Nyasa, the paper unfolds how the Jain philosophy facilitates an acceptance of individualism and respect for other’s opinions and viewpoints, therefore forming the base for co-existence by implying equality among individuals.

This paper tries to explore the ways in which youth from the Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Trans* community have used the digital medium to engage in social and political processes. It makes an attempt to look at the various technologies that they have used. The report also seeks to understand whether the community perceives digital technology as a support system and how have they used the internet to project the community in the mainstream society. The report also looks at the flipside of using digital technology and who gets to access it. Throughout this process the paper seeks to explore what it is that makes the virtual space an important site for queer activism.

The study tried to capture the experiences of performers, organisers, intellectuals and audiences of the art form from a feminist perspective through personal interviews. Some of the narratives have been used in this paper. I have also observed several Bihu performances. This paper examines how the political atmosphere of Assam led to the creation and recreation of Bihu in the way that it exists in the contemporary times. It also explores how discourse on the Assamese identity and gender gets constructed and performed through Bihu.

The National Register of Citizens (NRC) in Assam along with being a communal issue is also extremely gendered in nature. In the process of granting citizenship, the state ensures and renaturalises heteronormativity. A process of ascertaining citizenship through lineage can never be inclusive of people who are outside the norms of heterosexual familial structure.

This paper explores certain facets of the quotidian of people who are living "queer" lives in Manipur, through stories of struggles and negotiation of 8 people trying to survive abuse, find livelihood and acceptance from their family and community; amidst the hostility of nation-state conflict. These stories complicate the narrative of the oppressor and the oppressed as well as that of violence and desire.

Background 1.1 Being Transgender in India 1.2 Larger context of militaristic state control 1.3 State response to public protests and the Covid-19 Pandemic 9 2 Chapter 2: Research Methodology 2. 1 Sites 2.2 Sample 2. 3. Ethical Concerns 9 Chapter 3: Discussion of Findings 3.1. Interactions with the Police 3.2 Surveillance 3.3 Experiences in accessing online spaces 3.4 Censorship 3.5 Specific experiences during the national lockdown: 12 Conclusion: Re-imagining Security References 40

The authors offer andolan/protest imaginaries, meditations that move between the heady inspirations of current protests and the stultifying violence of state practices in South Asia. Each contributor speaks of sight lines of possibility and peril, even as they struggle to inhabit a divided and ravaged landscape. For Paromita Vohra and Anjali Arondekar, andolan gardens grow into supply chains that may or may not create food for thought and struggle. Ayesha Kidwai's dream of a multilingual university accompanies the protest dialogues of activists Diti and Vihaan. Suryakant Waghmore's journey of caste and voice provides the counterpoint to Mir Suhail's images of fury, joy, and death. Together, the authors move toward justice.

This paper analyses crimes against women and children in Delhi based on two data sources – the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) and an empirical dataset drawn from the Perceptions Survey of the Delhi Human Development Report, 2013. Using the NCRB data, the paper analyses trends in the rate and composition of crimes against women and children during the years 2004-06 to 2010-12, including charge sheets and convictions. Results from the Public Perception Survey highlight the spatial nature of crime in the city, the differential perception as well as actual experience of crime by social groups and the gendered nature of crime. A key finding is the high vulnerability of children to crime in the city.  This article analyses both secondary and empirical data and what emerges from the comparison is the simultaneous existence of incidence of crime on the one hand and perception of crime and violence on the other. Based on this analysis, this paper suggests that a combination of various data sources is essential to capture both incidence and perception of crime and violence, an immensely crucial and vastly under researched topic in social sciences.