Subject(s): Women in Family relationships in India. -- Women in India in Conduct of life. -- Feminism in India. -- Travails of the Indian women - from Purdah to modernity -- Socio-cultural context : Ideal Indian women- social imagination and lived realities, advice to housewives- conduct book tradition in Orissa, gender relations in tribe in India, Dalit women's voices in rural Andhra Pradesh -- Marriage and family : Timing of marriage in India, economic development, gender and matrimonial advertisement in India, patriarchy and patermalism in intimate partner violence- study of domestic violence in rural India, two images of matriliny - Khasi and Nair, widowhood and law in India- sociological analysis, politics of population control in India -- Empowerment of marginalized : Women, Adivasis, subalterns- perspectives on empowerment of Santal women, women's empowerment and self help groups- overview of strategies and initiatives, examination of empowerment of women- study of women in Kerala, elite women's roles in empowering oppressed women- volunteer work in NGOs in Kolkata -- Women in new roles : Kela women of Orissa and changing entrepreneurship, women scientists in Indi- socio economic survey, parties, patronage and gender in Panchayati raj -- women empowerment