Prem Chowdhry | |
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Born | 1944
[1] India |
Occupation | Academic, activist, artist |
Nationality | Indian |
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]
She is a well-known scholar of gender studies, authority on the political economy and social history of Haryana state in India. [6] [7]
Chowdhry 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]
Chowdhry 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]
She is the daughter of Hardwari Lal, [28] the educationist and Indian National Congress member of parliament for Haryana. [29]
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.
Prem Chowdhry | |
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Born | 1944
[1] India |
Occupation | Academic, activist, artist |
Nationality | Indian |
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]
She is a well-known scholar of gender studies, authority on the political economy and social history of Haryana state in India. [6] [7]
Chowdhry 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]
Chowdhry 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]
She is the daughter of Hardwari Lal, [28] the educationist and Indian National Congress member of parliament for Haryana. [29]
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.