Prem Chowdhry

Prem Chowdhry
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]}

Career

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]

Art career

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]}

Works

Books

• Chowdhry, Prem (1984). Punjab politics: the role of Sir Chhotu Ram. Vikas/University of Michigan. p. 364. ISBN   978-0706924732.
• Chowdhry, Prem (1994). The Veiled Women: Shifting Gender Equations In Rural Haryana. Oxford University Press India. ISBN   978-0195670387.
• Chowdhry, Prem (2000). Colonial India and the Making of Empire Cinema: Image, Ideology and Identity. Manchester University Press. p. 294. ISBN   978-0719057922.
• Chowdhry, Prem (July 2009). Contentious Marriages, Eloping Couples: Gender, Caste, and Patriarchy in Northern India. Oxford University Press. p. 360. ISBN   978-0198063612.
• Chowdhry, Prem (2010). Gender Discrimination in Land Ownership. Sage Publications. p. 314. ISBN   978-8178299426.
• Chowdhry, Prem (2011). Political Economy of Production and Reproduction. Oxford University Press. p. 464. ISBN   9780198067702.
• Chowdhry, Prem (2011). Understanding Politics And Society – Hardwari Lal. Manak publications. p. 423. ISBN   978-8178312279.

Papers

• Chowdhry, Prem (28 November 1987). "Socio-economic dimensions of certain customs and attitudes: women of Haryana in the colonial period". Economic and Political Weekly . 22 (48): 2060–2066. JSTOR   4377793.
• Chowdhry, Prem (1990). "Alternative to the Sati model: perceptions of a social reality in folklore". Asian Folklore Studies . 49 (2): 259–274. doi:10.2307/1178036. JSTOR   1178036.
• Chowdhry, Prem (25 December 1993). "High participation, low evaluation: women and work in rural Haryana". Economic and Political Weekly . 28 (52): A–135–A–137 and A–140–A–148. JSTOR   4400591.
• Chowdhry, Prem (1996). "Conjugality, law and state: inheritance rights as pivot of control in Northern India". Indo-British Review. 21 (1): 59–72. OCLC   193906854.
• Chowdhry, Prem (April–June 1996). "Contours of communalism: religion, caste and identity in South-East Punjab". Social Scientist . 24 (4/6): 130–163. doi:10.2307/3517794. JSTOR   3517794.
• Chowdhry, Prem (24 August 1996). "Marriage, sexuality and the female 'ascetic': understanding a Hindu sect". Economic and Political Weekly . 31 (34): 2307–2321. JSTOR   4404549.
• Chowdhry, Prem (10 May 1997). "Enforcing cultural codes: gender and violence in Northern India". Economic and Political Weekly . 32 (19): 1019–1028. JSTOR   4405393.
• Chowdhry, Prem (February 2000). "Propaganda and protest: the myth of the Muslim menace in an empire film (The Drum, 1938)". Studies in History. 16 (1): 109–130. doi:10.1177/025764300001600105. S2CID   159486594.
• Chowdhry, Prem (January–July 2001). "Lustful women, elusive lovers identifying males as objects of female desire". Indian Journal of Gender Studies . 8 (1): 23–50. doi:10.1177/097152150100800102. S2CID   143881077.
• Chowdhry, Prem (3 December 2005). "Crisis of masculinity in Haryana: the unmarried, the unemployed and the aged". Economic and Political Weekly . 40 (49): 5189–5198. JSTOR   4417491.
• Chowdhry, Prem (31 July 2010). "Women in the army". Economic and Political Weekly . 45 (31).

Personal life

She is the daughter of Hardwari Lal, ^[28] the educationist and Indian National Congress member of parliament for Haryana. ^[29]

References

1. Central Administrative Tribunal – Delhi
2. Different Types of History Part 4 of History of science, philosophy and culture in Indian civilization. Ray, Bharati. Pearson Education India, 2009. ISBN   8131718182,
3. Sage Publishing: Prem Chowdhry Affiliations
4. Anagol, Padma (2005). The Emergence of Feminism in India, 1850–1920. Ashgate Publishing Company. ISBN   9780754634119.
5. 'Khaps Have To Reform', Sheela Reddy, Outlook India, July 2010
6. Geetha, V. (11 June 2012). "Power, violence and Dalit women". The Hindu . Retrieved 10 July 2021. 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.
7. Oxford University Press
8. India Court of Women on Dowry and Related Forms of Violence against Women, 2009
9. "Centre for Women's Development Studies". Archived from the original on 26 August 2013. Retrieved 6 June 2013. CWDS About Us Archived 5 November 2013 at the Wayback Machine
10. Law and Social Science Research Network, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library 2008
11. JNU Alumni Association Archived 3 March 2013 at the Wayback Machine
12. Ramesh, Randeep (28 July 2007). "Foetuses aborted and dumped secretly as India shuns baby girls". The Guardian . Retrieved 10 July 2021.
13. Burke, Jason (25 June 2010). "Triple murder in India highlights increase in 'honour killings'". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
14. George, Nirmala (12 July 2010). "Divorce or die -- old rules clash with new India". Boston.com. Associated Press . Retrieved 10 July 2021.
15. Singh, Madhur (25 May 2010). "Why Are Hindu Honor Killings Rising in India?". TIME . Retrieved 10 July 2021.
16. Denyer, Simon (15 May 2008). "Indian village proud after double "honor killing"". Reuters . Retrieved 10 July 2021.
17. Gursoy, Rabia; Jalali, Falah (24 August 2020). "Black and white selfies on social media bring awareness to violence against women". The Statesman . Retrieved 10 July 2021.
18. McCarthy, Julie (8 February 2013). "Outside The Big City, A Harrowing Sexual Assault In Rural India". NPR . Retrieved 10 July 2021.
19. Rathi, Nandini (11 August 2017). "1930s imperial propaganda: How star-studded western films justified British colonialism". The Indian Express . Retrieved 10 July 2021.
20. "As property prices rise, more Indian women claim inheritance". Mint. Reuters. 13 March 2019. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
21. "RESPONSES TO INFORMATION REQUESTS (RIRs)" (PDF). www.justice.gov. Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada. 9 January 2006. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
22. Chowdhry, Prem (19 July 2019). "Violence around inter-caste marriages". The Tribune . Retrieved 10 July 2021.
23. Chowdhry, Prem (11 February 2020). "Invest in education for girls to reduce poverty". The Tribune . Retrieved 10 July 2021.
24. Chowdhry, Prem (artist) (2008). Scarlet Woman (Painting: oil on canvas, for use on front cover of academic journal Signs , autumn 2010). Chicago Journals . Retrieved 21 February 2015.
25. Chowdhry, Prem (Autumn 2010). "Illustration". Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society . 36 (1): Front cover. doi:10.1086/651184. JSTOR   10.1086/651184.
26. Salwat, Ali (1 February 2008). "The Art of Dialogue". Newsline Magazine . Retrieved 21 February 2015.
27. Jayetilleke, Rohan (2 June 2004). "Prem Chowdry explores life". Daily News. Retrieved 10 July 2021.
28. Reformist revisited, Humra Quraishi, The Tribune India. 27 March 2011
29. Social Scientist. v 21, no. 244-46 (Sept–Nov 1993) p. 112

External links

• Prem Chowdhry – Economic and Political Weekly
• ICHR Website
• Centre for Women's Development Studies Website