Subject(s): Feminism -- Equality -- Women empowerment -- Women development -- Indian state and women's problematic -- Women's problematic and conduct of state : Gender in making of Indian nation- state, spinning wheel as dear forgotten friend of widows, Lakshmi and scientific housewife - transnational account of Indian women's development and production of an Indian modernity, reservation for women in union and state legislatures -- Examining diagnosis, commitment and nature of its actualization : Towards equality, commitements and their operationalization assessing policy formulation, program and organization design of women empowerment in India, women and development in India, India's country reports on CEDAW- sepeartaing fact sfrom fiction in history of women's empowerment written by indian politico administrative class, integration of rural women in agriculture and rural development -- Assessing the impact of initiatives undertaken by the state in different sectors : Women's empowerment in Indian and its states - evidence from NFHS, women's self help groups, poverty alleviation and empowerment, laws against domestic violence, political empowerment of women - case of Orissa PRIs -- Efforts initiated by communities and autonomous organizations :Women and empowerment, SEWA organizational model- contemporary appraisal, grassroots developments in empowerment of women in India, empowerment of women - grassroots women's networks and state, private concerns in public discourse- women initiated community responses to domestic violence -- Women's empowerment : Challenges before women's movement in changing context, action for change -- women empowerment