Articles by Kumud Sharma

The practices of women's movement are continually being transformed to meet new challenges. Yet feminist politics is constantly confronted with a scepticism against institutionalised politics; it displays an uneasiness with the forms of power that dominate political processes. Similarly the politics of mainstreaming women's studies implies that feminist scholarship has had to cope with the complex web of relationships within academia dominated by a patriarchal academy and knowledge hierarchy. But as this paper explains, while institutional locations may also form their own sites of contest, the need for a renewed and sustained struggle from such locations, employing new interventions in the hope of transforming institutions, remains of crucial importance for the women's movement.

the scheduled areas. If we consider all the lands for which legal titles (pattas) exist in the scheduled areas of Andhra Pradesh, the non-tribals own more than six lakh acres which is more than half of the total lands might have been reclaimed from virgin forests long ago by the ancestors of the present non-tribal residents of the scheduled areas. But most of them have been acquired by the non-tribals from the tribals in the recent past. The plain truth is that the influx of the non-tribals into the scheduled areas has been steadily increasing over the years, and so also the acquisition of lands by them.