I have done my PhD on health and sanitation in colonial Bengal from Jadavpur University in 2009 and did my post-doctoral research for 3 years at The Asiatic Society of Kolkata on socio-cultural history of 20th century Bengal. Presently I am working on the status of Muslim women in West Bengal and also have a working paper on food and women in colonial Bengal. Supervisors: Prof. Chittabrata Palit, Prof Uttara Chakraborty, Prof Ishita Mukhopadhyay.
The main objective of this paper is to highlight the problem of domestic violence in West Bengal,... more The main objective of this paper is to highlight the problem of domestic violence in West Bengal, a state of India, and how it is affecting the working women in general. As we all know the problem of domestic violence is a very common issue and it exits everywhere regardless of the socioeconomic status of a country. The core of this matter has an intimate connection with the structure of the society which is male-dominated or in other words, patriarchal. The above-mentioned statement is definitely controversial, but do we have any other choice to refute or negate the fact that women are always considered as less empowered than men? I may sound feminist, but I believe, feminism is a scholarly male-oriented construct, which separates women from the mass and marginalises their identity. Now the question is what is my hypothesis and how do I prove this? Here my argument stands on some basic viewpoints. Firstly, this paper is not an empirical study which only deals with information and the narration of that information. Rather it will be focusing more on the analysis of the present situation in West Bengal and the way outs if there are any. Secondly, the issue of domestic violence is neither academic nor entertaining; it represents hard core social reality. So the discussion on this topic portrays a subtle approach to look into the matter, where emotion plays the role of a catalyst. Thirdly, the stance of the state and the involvement of the private organisations surely help to know the truth, but truth can be also half or hidden, so an impartial method of enquiry has been adopted by the author to situate where do the victims stand and how they are coping up with the actual situation. It would be really apt if I begin my discussion with a proper definition of domestic violence. Though I believe it is certainly unrealistic and futile to describe what domestic violence is, as it has polygonal perpetual characteristics, which are increasing day by day, still to feed our so called hunger for knowledge gathering, we define violence in the context of domesticity. According to 'The Protection Of Women From Domestic Violence Act, 2005, Act No.43 Of 2005', domestic violence is an action which " harms or endangers the health, safety, life, limb or well-being, whether mental or physical, of the aggrieved person or tends to do so and includes causing physical abuse, sexual abuse, verbal and emotional abuse and economic abuse…(Chapter 2) " In this Chapter , in the section, Explanation 1, there are the legal descriptions of different kinds of abuses, but most of these explanations need to be more specific and straight. There are only two lines in this chapter to describe " sexual abuse " which points out " any conduct of a sexual nature that abuses, humiliates, degrades or otherwise violates the dignity of women; "
The main objective of this paper is to highlight the problem of domestic violence in West Bengal,... more The main objective of this paper is to highlight the problem of domestic violence in West Bengal, a state of India, and how it is affecting the working women in general. As we all know the problem of domestic violence is a very common issue and it exits everywhere regardless of the socioeconomic status of a country. The core of this matter has an intimate connection with the structure of the society which is male-dominated or in other words, patriarchal. The above-mentioned statement is definitely controversial, but do we have any other choice to refute or negate the fact that women are always considered as less empowered than men? I may sound feminist, but I believe, feminism is a scholarly male-oriented construct, which separates women from the mass and marginalises their identity. Now the question is what is my hypothesis and how do I prove this? Here my argument stands on some basic viewpoints. Firstly, this paper is not an empirical study which only deals with information and the narration of that information. Rather it will be focusing more on the analysis of the present situation in West Bengal and the way outs if there are any. Secondly, the issue of domestic violence is neither academic nor entertaining; it represents hard core social reality. So the discussion on this topic portrays a subtle approach to look into the matter, where emotion plays the role of a catalyst. Thirdly, the stance of the state and the involvement of the private organisations surely help to know the truth, but truth can be also half or hidden, so an impartial method of enquiry has been adopted by the author to situate where do the victims stand and how they are coping up with the actual situation. It would be really apt if I begin my discussion with a proper definition of domestic violence. Though I believe it is certainly unrealistic and futile to describe what domestic violence is, as it has polygonal perpetual characteristics, which are increasing day by day, still to feed our so called hunger for knowledge gathering, we define violence in the context of domesticity. According to 'The Protection Of Women From Domestic Violence Act, 2005, Act No.43 Of 2005', domestic violence is an action which " harms or endangers the health, safety, life, limb or well-being, whether mental or physical, of the aggrieved person or tends to do so and includes causing physical abuse, sexual abuse, verbal and emotional abuse and economic abuse…(Chapter 2) " In this Chapter , in the section, Explanation 1, there are the legal descriptions of different kinds of abuses, but most of these explanations need to be more specific and straight. There are only two lines in this chapter to describe " sexual abuse " which points out " any conduct of a sexual nature that abuses, humiliates, degrades or otherwise violates the dignity of women; "
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