Most recent papers:

• Disappearing Forest, Bare Hills and Mute Witnesses: Forest Loss and Its Impact on Karbi Tribal Women of Assam.
  Phulmoni Das, Robin Hazarika.
  Indian Journal of Gender Studies. February 23, 2026
  Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 88-99, February 2026.
  The article studies the interrelationship between forests, livelihood and gender in Assam. The nature of ownership and control over forests has been changing, leading to significant gender implications. There are different reasons why forests are ...

  February 23, 2026   doi: 10.1177/09715215251404308   open full text
• Book review: Shailaja Paik, The Vulgarity of Caste: Dalit Sexuality and Humanity in Modern India.
  Anagha Tambe.
  Indian Journal of Gender Studies. February 23, 2026
  Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 109-113, February 2026.
  

  February 23, 2026   doi: 10.1177/09715215251404305   open full text
• Book review: Kathryn Hansen, Pure Entertainment: Parsi Theatre, Gender and Performance.
  Snober Sataravala.
  Indian Journal of Gender Studies. February 23, 2026
  Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 103-106, February 2026.
  

  February 23, 2026   doi: 10.1177/09715215251404307   open full text
• Book review: Deepita Chakravarty and Ishita Chakravarty, Wives and Widows at Work: Women’s Labour in Agrarian Bengal, Then and Now.
  Satyaki Roy.
  Indian Journal of Gender Studies. February 23, 2026
  Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 106-109, February 2026.
  

  February 23, 2026   doi: 10.1177/09715215251404306   open full text
• Book review: Uma Chakravarti, The Dying Lineage: The Crisis of Political Power in the Mahabharata.
  Soumen Mukherjee.
  Indian Journal of Gender Studies. February 23, 2026
  Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 113-117, February 2026.
  

  February 23, 2026   doi: 10.1177/09715215251404304   open full text
• Book review: Radha Kapuria, Music in Colonial Punjab: Courtesans, Bards and Connoisseurs, 1800–1947.
  Urmila Bhirdikar.
  Indian Journal of Gender Studies. February 23, 2026
  Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 118-121, February 2026.
  

  February 23, 2026   doi: 10.1177/09715215251404303   open full text
• Book review: Tanika Sarkar, Religion & Women in India: Gender, Faith and Politics 1770s–1980s.
  Mary E. John.
  Indian Journal of Gender Studies. February 23, 2026
  Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 100-103, February 2026.
  

  February 23, 2026   doi: 10.1177/09715215251404301   open full text
• Localising Transgender Identity and the Politics of Assertion: An Ethnographic Study in Assam.
  Anee Bhattacharyya.
  Indian Journal of Gender Studies. February 23, 2026
  Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 26-46, February 2026.
  The collective identity formation of transgender people in Assam is a comparatively new process. Organising themselves with a regional gender identity, they are drawing from, and yet differentiating themselves from, the pan-Indian hijra (transgender) ...

  February 23, 2026   doi: 10.1177/09715215251404314   open full text
• Identity, Feminist Theory and Language in Women’s Studies Degree Programmes: Some Reflections on Epistemic and Social Justice.
  Arpita Anand.
  Indian Journal of Gender Studies. February 23, 2026
  Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 47-70, February 2026.
  Through a study of five degree programmes, this article endeavours to argue that ‘identity’ has become crucial to defining women’s studies as a teaching, degree-granting field in the Indian context today. It traces how the field’s self-definitions have ...

  February 23, 2026   doi: 10.1177/09715215251404313   open full text
• Institutional Patriarchy: Analysing Sexual Harassment in Workplace Policy Through the Theory of Institutionalism.
  Vinita Chandra.
  Indian Journal of Gender Studies. February 23, 2026
  Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 71-87, February 2026.
  It has been a decade since the Sexual Harassment of Women at Workplace (Prevention, Prohibition and Redressal) Act, 2013 was passed, but data shows that implementation of the law is unsatisfactory, and conviction is extremely low. Internal Complaints ...

  February 23, 2026   doi: 10.1177/09715215251404312   open full text
• Gendered Household Responsibilities in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from India.
  Rimon Saha, Ladenla Lama, Namrata Thapa.
  Indian Journal of Gender Studies. February 23, 2026
  Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 7-25, February 2026.
  The article studies the division of household work before and during the complete lockdown period of the COVID-19 pandemic in India. It also examines the influence of individual and household characteristics on the division of work, exploring, in ...

  February 23, 2026   doi: 10.1177/09715215251404260   open full text
• New Resources.
  Akhlak Ahmad.
  Indian Journal of Gender Studies. December 14, 2025
  Indian Journal of Gender Studies, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 122-124, February 2026.
  

  December 14, 2025   doi: 10.1177/09715215251404302   open full text