Prem Chowdhry

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Prem Chowdhry
Born 1944[1]
India
Occupation Academic, activist, artist
Nationality Indian

Dr Prem Chowdhry is an Indian social scientist, historian,[2] feminist,[3] Senior Academic Fellow at the Indian Council of Historical Research, New Delhi [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] and daughter of Hardwari Lal,[7] the renown educationist and Indian National Congress member of parliament for Haryana.[8]

Professional achievements

Chowdhry is a Life Member of the Center for Women Studies.[9][10] 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.[11]

Chowdhry is an alumna of Jawaharlal Nehru University,[12] and professorial fellow of the University Grants Commission (India).

Art career

Chowdhry is also a self-taught artist [13] whose painting are held by the National Gallery, India[14] 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.[15]

Works

Books

  • Chowdhry, Prem (1994). The Veiled Women: Shifting Gender Equations In Rural Haryana. Oxford University Press India. ISBN 0195670388. 
  • Chowdhry, Prem (2000). Colonial India and the Making of Empire Cinema: Image, Ideology and Identity. Manchester University Press. p. 294. ISBN 0719057922. 
  • Chowdhry, Prem (2010). Gender Discrimination in Land Ownership. Sage Publications. p. 314. ISBN 8178299429. 
  • Chowdhry, Prem (Jul 2009). Contentious Marriages, Eloping Couples: Gender, Caste, and Patriarchy in Northern India. Oxford University Press. p. 360. ISBN 019806361X. 
  • Chowdhry, Prem (1984). Punjab politics: the role of Sir Chhotu Ram. Vikas/University of Michigan. p. 364. ISBN 0706924738. 
  • Chowdhry, Prem (2011). Political Economy of Production and Reproduction. Oxford University Press. p. 464. ISBN 9780198067702. 
  • 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 8178312271. 

Papers

  • Chowdhry, Prem (Jan-Jul 2001). "Lustful Women, Elusive Lovers Identifying Males as Objects of Female Desire'". Indian Journal of Gender Studies 8: 23–50. 
  • Chowdhry, Prem (Apr - Jun, 1996). "Contours of Communalism: Religion, Caste and Identity in South-East Punjab". Social Scientist 24 (4/6). 
  • Chowdhry, Prem (Aug 1996). "Marriage, Sexuality and the Female 'ascetic': Understanding a Hindu Sect". Economic and Political Weekly 31 (34): pp. 2307–2321. 
  • Chowdhry, Prem (July 2010). "Women in the Army". Economic and Political Weekly 155 (31). 
  • Chowdhry, Prem (1993). "Conjugality, Law and State: Inheritance Rights as Pivot of Control in Northern India, Special issue on Feminism and Law". National Law School Journal: 95–116. 
  • Chowdhry, Prem (1990). "Alternative to the Sati Model: Perceptions of a Social Reality in Folklore". Asian Folklore Studies 49 (2): pp. 259–274. 
  • Chowdhry, Prem (Feb 2000). "Propaganda and Protest: The Myth of the Muslim Menace in an Empire Film ( The Drum, 1938)". Studies in History 16 (1): pp. 259–274. doi:10.1177/025764300001600105. 
  • Chowdhry, Prem (May 1997). "Enforcing Cultural Codes: Gender and Violence in Northern India". Economic and Political Weekly 32 (19): pp. 1019–1028. doi:10.1177/025764300001600105. 
  • Chowdhry, Prem (Dec 2005). "Crisis of Masculinity in Haryana". Economic and Political Weekly 150 (49): pp. 1019–1028. 
  • Chowdhry, Prem (Dec 1987). "Socio-Economic Dimensions of Certain Customs and Attitudes-Women of Haryana in the Colonial Period". Economic and Political Weekly 22 (48): pp. 1019–1028. 
  • Chowdhry, Prem (Dec 1993). "High Participation, Low Evaluation-Women and Work in Rural Haryana". Economic and Political Weekly 28 (52): pp. 1019–1028. 

External links

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. ↑ Anagol, Padma (2005). The Emergence of Feminism in India, 1850-1920. Ashgate Publishing Company. ISBN 9780754634119. 
  4. ↑ Sage Publishing: Prem Chowdhry Affiliations
  5. ↑ ‘Khaps Have To Reform’, Sheela Reddy, Outlook India, July 2010
  6. ↑ Oxford University Press
  7. ↑ Reformist revisited, Humra Quraishi, The Tribune India. March 27, 2011
  8. ↑ Social Scientist. v 21, no. 244-46 (Sept-Nov 1993) p. 112
  9. ↑ India Court of Women on Dowry and Related Forms of Violence against Women, 2009
  10. ↑ CWDS About Us
  11. ↑ Law and Social Sciences Research Network, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library 2008
  12. ↑ JNU Alumni Association
  13. ↑ 'Scarlet Woman'. Signs (volume 36, number 1), a special issue on “Feminists Theorize International Political Economy” edited by Shirin M. Rai and Kate Bedford. Autumn 2010
  14. ↑ Zoominfo: Prem Chowdhry
  15. ↑ 'The Art of Dialogue' Ali, Salwat, Newsline Magazine, 1 Feb 2008
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