Papers by Pallavi Beri (nee Bahar)
Strengthening Governance Through Access To …, Jan 1, 2009
The raison d'etre of the legal institutions'1'is to secure... more The raison d'etre of the legal institutions'1'is to secure legal justice for all on an equal basis. Legal justice here implies deciding cases and imparting judgments in courts under the auspices of law and Constitution wherein like cases are treated alike. It rests upon three ...
Books by Pallavi Beri (nee Bahar)
Yking Books: Jaipur, 2022
For a common man, the ‘Covid-19 lockdown’ on the one hand implies staying at home, spending qual... more For a common man, the ‘Covid-19 lockdown’ on the one hand implies staying at home, spending quality time with family, admiring nature and reflecting on the future. On the other hand, it also implies turbulence in the routine life, working from home, restricted movement, dissociation of socialised living, coping with limited availability of essentials, physical distancing, uncertainty around medical assistance and so on. As against the inconveniences experienced by the common populace, the plight of destitute labourers and vulnerable sections in India (women, elderly, children, disabled, and the sick) offers a different experience marked by extreme hunger, loss of jobs, violence, fear, uncertainty, and helplessness. While most of the media, state and societal attention has been on the policy reforms geared towards technology, education, rural economy, health services, and more recently the labourers, the question of stark violence within domestic spaces fails to figure in state policy. The paper highlights the reckless intensification of coercive tendencies that are operating ruthlessly in the wake of the Covid-19 lockdown against the helpless women behind domestic walls. It interrogates the reluctant approach of the state, media and legal system in ensuring protection and justice for victims of domestic violence in India.
IMPRI Books, 2024
According to the J S Verma Committee report – Violence or assault, sexual or otherwise, on women ... more According to the J S Verma Committee report – Violence or assault, sexual or otherwise, on women is
a violation of the fundamental right to live with dignity” (Verma, Seth and Subramanium, 2013: 65).
The United Nations defines violence against women as "any act of gender-based violence that results
in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual, or mental harm or suffering to women, including threats of
such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life."
What the wider definitions of violence fall short of considering is that Violence Against Women starts
even before their birth in the form sex selection and foeticide. The cultural norms and practices
enforce structural inequalities and hence, gendered discriminations and disadvantages that lead to
violence against women in different forms – visible and invisible.
The paper looks in to violence against women in its twin variant – as a visible criminal activity and as
an invisible oppressive mechanism – operating within the domestic space. Domestic violence, in
particular, is one of the most pervasive constantly operating crime against women that remains under-
reported until it becomes visible. Various laws and policies such as Dowry Prohibition Act 1961,
Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act 2005, IPC Section 398A, have evolved to check
the visible aspects of domestic violence such as marital rape, dowry and dowry murders, child
marriage, sati, wife beating, verbal and physical abuse. Some extended institutional support
mechanisms such as Short Stay Homes (1969), Swadhar Yojana (2001-02) and One Stop Centers
(2015) have also been launched to provide relief and protection to women victims of domestic abuse.
However, despite these legal and policy reforms, the pervasiveness of domestic violence fails to find a
remedy. The paper argues that behind every act of direct violence, there is a form of structural
violence that operates indirectly on women which lack definition in laws and policies on violence. It
attempts to investigate the invisible aspects of violence against women in familial space that regulate
choices of women and lead to oppressive practices. The paper through visuals attempts to capture the
presence of invisible violence that operates on the mind and soul of the women. It delves in to the
structural inequalities and patriarchal processes/mechanisms rooted in socio-cultural norms that go
beyond policy and institutional redressal frameworks.
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Papers by Pallavi Beri (nee Bahar)
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a violation of the fundamental right to live with dignity” (Verma, Seth and Subramanium, 2013: 65).
The United Nations defines violence against women as "any act of gender-based violence that results
in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual, or mental harm or suffering to women, including threats of
such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life."
What the wider definitions of violence fall short of considering is that Violence Against Women starts
even before their birth in the form sex selection and foeticide. The cultural norms and practices
enforce structural inequalities and hence, gendered discriminations and disadvantages that lead to
violence against women in different forms – visible and invisible.
The paper looks in to violence against women in its twin variant – as a visible criminal activity and as
an invisible oppressive mechanism – operating within the domestic space. Domestic violence, in
particular, is one of the most pervasive constantly operating crime against women that remains under-
reported until it becomes visible. Various laws and policies such as Dowry Prohibition Act 1961,
Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act 2005, IPC Section 398A, have evolved to check
the visible aspects of domestic violence such as marital rape, dowry and dowry murders, child
marriage, sati, wife beating, verbal and physical abuse. Some extended institutional support
mechanisms such as Short Stay Homes (1969), Swadhar Yojana (2001-02) and One Stop Centers
(2015) have also been launched to provide relief and protection to women victims of domestic abuse.
However, despite these legal and policy reforms, the pervasiveness of domestic violence fails to find a
remedy. The paper argues that behind every act of direct violence, there is a form of structural
violence that operates indirectly on women which lack definition in laws and policies on violence. It
attempts to investigate the invisible aspects of violence against women in familial space that regulate
choices of women and lead to oppressive practices. The paper through visuals attempts to capture the
presence of invisible violence that operates on the mind and soul of the women. It delves in to the
structural inequalities and patriarchal processes/mechanisms rooted in socio-cultural norms that go
beyond policy and institutional redressal frameworks.
a violation of the fundamental right to live with dignity” (Verma, Seth and Subramanium, 2013: 65).
The United Nations defines violence against women as "any act of gender-based violence that results
in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual, or mental harm or suffering to women, including threats of
such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life."
What the wider definitions of violence fall short of considering is that Violence Against Women starts
even before their birth in the form sex selection and foeticide. The cultural norms and practices
enforce structural inequalities and hence, gendered discriminations and disadvantages that lead to
violence against women in different forms – visible and invisible.
The paper looks in to violence against women in its twin variant – as a visible criminal activity and as
an invisible oppressive mechanism – operating within the domestic space. Domestic violence, in
particular, is one of the most pervasive constantly operating crime against women that remains under-
reported until it becomes visible. Various laws and policies such as Dowry Prohibition Act 1961,
Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act 2005, IPC Section 398A, have evolved to check
the visible aspects of domestic violence such as marital rape, dowry and dowry murders, child
marriage, sati, wife beating, verbal and physical abuse. Some extended institutional support
mechanisms such as Short Stay Homes (1969), Swadhar Yojana (2001-02) and One Stop Centers
(2015) have also been launched to provide relief and protection to women victims of domestic abuse.
However, despite these legal and policy reforms, the pervasiveness of domestic violence fails to find a
remedy. The paper argues that behind every act of direct violence, there is a form of structural
violence that operates indirectly on women which lack definition in laws and policies on violence. It
attempts to investigate the invisible aspects of violence against women in familial space that regulate
choices of women and lead to oppressive practices. The paper through visuals attempts to capture the
presence of invisible violence that operates on the mind and soul of the women. It delves in to the
structural inequalities and patriarchal processes/mechanisms rooted in socio-cultural norms that go
beyond policy and institutional redressal frameworks.