Empowerment of Women and Panchayati Raj: The Perception and Reality - A Case Study of Rural Midnapore

• Authors: Keshab Chandra Mandal
• Languages of publication: EN

Keywords

EN

empowerment of women; case study; gender

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Studies of Changing Societies
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 2013
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 68-88

Dates

online

2014-11-05

Contributors

author

Keshab Chandra Mandal

• Ph.D. A Formerly Scholar of Vidyasagar University, Department of Political Science with Rural Administration, Vidyasagar University Midnapore, West Bengal

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/scs-2014-0161