Women and the Right to Hearing in Rajasthan, India

SAAPE Working Paper S eries WP No. 2017 - 01 - 12

15 Pages Posted: 24 Jan 2017

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Deepa Kylasam Iyer

Cornell University - School of Industrial and Labor Relations

Date Written: January 19, 2017

Abstract

The Rajasthan Right to Hearing Act 2012 is one of the legislative measures that was brought in as a result of social movements of resistance in the Indian state of Rajasthan. The new legislation demanded better delivery of government services and the right of citizens to have transparency and accountability. This narrative essay dwells on the author’s month long field visit in the winter of 2014 as a member of a group engaged in political mobilisation of villages in Rajasthan to implement public hearing under the legislation. The vantage point of the author is of an outsider in touch with the intimate realities of rural Rajasthan and she observes how an unlikely group of women and lower castes are using the law to demand better government services.

Keywords: Right to hearing, Rajasthan, Women and participation, Social movements

Suggested Citation

Kylasam Iyer, Deepa, Women and the Right to Hearing in Rajasthan, India (January 19, 2017). SAAPE Working Paper S eries WP No. 2017 - 01 - 12, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2902403

Deepa Kylasam Iyer (Contact Author)

Cornell University - School of Industrial and Labor Relations ( email )

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