LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 14:4 April 2014
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
         C. Subburaman, Ph.D. (Economics)
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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Gender Based Violence in India – A Burning Issue

Shakuntla Bamal
Asha Saharan

Gender-based Violence

“Caught in the mesh of feudal-patriarchal systems, women’s bodies are often the battle-grounds for many wars – between communities and clans, over inadequate dowry settlements or even in the matter of family planning. This daily violence takes its toll in the death and maiming of women in many ways – physical, psychological and emotional.” (Dr. Abhijit Das of the Center for Health and Social Justice of New Delhi).

Gender-based violence is one of the most pervasive and yet least-recognized human rights abuses in the world. Gender based violence that threatens the well being, rights and dignity of women has emerged as a global issue extending across regional, social, cultural and economic boundaries. Gender-based violence (GBV) is violence that is directed against a person on the basis of gender. It constitutes a breach of the fundamental right to life, liberty, security, dignity, equality between women and men, non-discrimination and physical and mental integrity. Gender-based violence replicates the prevailing asymmetry in the power relations between men and women and propagates the relegation and devaluation of the female as opposed to the male.

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Shakuntla Bamal
M.A., M.Phil.
Assistant Professor in Sociology
Government College
Siwani 127102 (Bhiwani)
Haryana
India

Asha Saharan
M.A., Ph.D.
Associate Professor in English
Government College
Siwani 127102 (Bhiwani)
Haryana
India
asha_saharan@yahoo.co.in
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