Increasingly, women’s property rights are seen as important for both equity and efficiency reasons. While there has been debate in the literature about women a

In this paper, we explore how different norms around property rights affect the empowerment of women of different social positions over the life cycle. We first

Owning Land, Being Women enquires into the processes that establish inheritance as a unique form of property relation in law and society. It focuses on India, e

Debates about family, property, and nation in Tamil India