Welfare Policy as a Political Frame: State Planning for Indian Women, 1951-74

International Journal of Humanities and Social Science

© 2022 by SSRG - IJHSS Journal

Volume 9 Issue 6

Year of Publication : 2022

Authors : Pooja Satyogi

10.14445/23942703/IJHSS-V9I6P102

How to Cite?

Pooja Satyogi, "Welfare Policy as a Political Frame: State Planning for Indian Women, 1951-74," SSRG International Journal of Humanities and Social Science, vol. 9,  no. 6, pp. 5-12, 2022. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.14445/23942703/IJHSS-V9I6P102

Abstract:

Narratives of time and issues concerning Indian women lay emphasis on the productive 19th century, with its fervent over social reform and women's position in Indian society, and the rather stormy decade of the 1970s that witnessed the publication of the Towards Equality report in 1974, which was prepared by the Government of India appointed committee called the committee on the Status of Women in India. This is followed by the Ministry of Education and Social Welfare declaring 1975 as the International Women's Year, the emergence of autonomous women's movements in India and the establishment of women-studies centres in Indian universities and the institutes of higher education. With its focus on the in-between period, that is, from 1951 to 1974, the article argues that the post-independence Indian state's planning and development processes incorporated women through the frame of welfare politics in which they were regarded primarily as mothers serving the household and the community through voluntary and largely unpaid labour.

Keywords:

Five-year plans, India, Planning and Development, Public policy, Status of women.

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