JHARKHAND MIRROR

 “Indigenous societies in India are showing an increasing tendency towards growing inequality in gender relations. This is more pronounced in societies that have integrated with mainstream Indian society.” Sanjay Basu Mallik; Gender relations and witches among the indigenous communities of Jharkhand, India. 

Santal Women in Jamshedpur

This gender differences will remain till it reaches to the apex fused and busted, eventually, coming to equilibrium stage. (Equilibrium really?) The capitalism and cat race for power will always there to push and pull either of the sex to go up and down. A society where one can view the clouds of equilibrium in sexes was about indigenous society, where always the collectivism lies. Both the sexes stand equally, responsible for the household and to the community. The parameters that, we look into were right to decide or right in decision making first in the household then in the community. The decision making in the social activity, decisions in the economic activity went parallel and equally with both the sexes. In respect to the village context, village is a family unit on whole, so all the responsibility were shared among the members of the family , whether to be sowing the fields, repairing the roofs or arrangement of child birth to marriage ceremony, all were done by the villagers (a family). Read more…