Fertility, Reproduction and Conjugal Loyalty: Renegotiating Gender Relations amongst Dalits in Rural Tamil Nadu

• Published in: South Asia multidisciplinary academic journal Vol. 19; no. 19
• Main Author: Rao, Nitya
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Association pour la recherche sur l'Asie du Sud (ARAS) 31.10.2018; Centre d’Etudes de l’Inde et de l’Asie du Sud
• Subjects: conjugality; Dalits; gender; India; respectability; Tamil Nadu; gender; Tamil Nadu; conjugality; Dalits; reproduction; respectability; India

Much of the literature on Dalits, and Dalit women in particular, focuses either on issues of violence, and subordination based on class, caste and gender, or the relative egalitarianism within Dalit households, which arises out of a context of shared hardship. It leaves out the contradictions and ne...