Conflict in the Shared Household - Domestic Violence and the Law in India

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Description
Lawyers Collective, Women's Rights Initiative, prepared a draft law- The Protection of Women from domestic Violence Act (PWDVA) - in consultation with women's groups from across the country to ensure emergency relief to women facing domestic violence. This law was passed by the Indian Parliament in 2005 and was brought in force by the government on 26 October 2006. Conflict in the Shared Household takes stock of the progress made towards achieving the objectives of the PWDVA during the first decade of its implementation. It examines the nature of structural inequality that perpetuates and condones domestic violence as a lesser 'wrong' and traces the history of the fight against domestic violence in India, focusing on legislative developments and themes relating to state accountability in terms of providing a supportive framework.
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Contents
Section I : Causes and Consequences
1.    Unscrambling the Images: Conflict in the Shared Household
        Indira Jaising
2.    Some thoughts on Domestic Violence : Using Violence to Regulate a Patriarchal Family
       Uma Chakravarti
3.    Mapping Legislative Changes
       Asmita Basu
Section II : Critical Issues
4.    'But...... Where Will Live/ : Domestic Violence and the Right to Reside
        Pinki Mathur Anurag
5.    Of Keeps' and 'Concubines' : Rights of Cohabitees under Domestic Violence Act
        Brototi Dutta
6.    Marital Rape as Domestic Violence : A Case for Criminalizing Marital Rape
        Ajita Sharma
7.    Towards Uniformity of Rights : Muslim Personal Law, the Domestic Violence Act, and
        the Harmonization of Family Law in India
        Saptarshi Mandal
Section III : Expectations from the Law and Its Enforcement
8.    Analysing Orders Granted under the PWDVA, 2005
        Aparna Chandra
9.    Long Road to Justice : Implementation of the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence
        Act (2005) in Haryana
        Monica Sakhrani, Trupti Jhaveri Panchal, Radhika Chakraborty, and Manisha Kande
10.  Nature of Services Available to women Survivors : One Stop Crisis Centres - Review
       and Recommendations
       Padma Bhate - Deosthali, Sangeeta Rege
11.   Changing contours of Fiscal Policy and Budgets to Address Violence against Women:
       An Analysis of Two States
       Kanika Kaul
Notes on Editors and Contributors
Index
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Author Details
Indira Jaising is senior advocate, Supreme Court of India, New Delhi, India
Pinki Mathur Anurag is technical director, Lawyers Collective, Mumbai, India.
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