Prem Chowdhry

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| birth_date = 1944[http://www.indiankanoon.org/doc/169233307/ Central Administrative Tribunal – Delhi]

| birth_place = India

| nationality = Indian

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Prem Chowdhry is an Indian social scientist, historian,Different Types of History

Part 4 of History of science, philosophy and culture in Indian civilization. Ray, Bharati. Pearson Education India, 2009. {{ISBN|8131718182}}, and Senior Academic Fellow at the Indian Council of Historical Research, New Delhi.[http://www.sagepub.com/authorDetails.nav?contribId=645165 Sage Publishing: Prem Chowdhry Affiliations] She is a feminist{{cite book|title=The Emergence of Feminism in India, 1850–1920|last=Anagol|first=Padma|author-link = Padma Anagol |publisher=Ashgate Publishing Company|year=2005|isbn=9780754634119}} and critic of violence against couples refusing arranged marriages.[http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?266072 'Khaps Have To Reform', Sheela Reddy, Outlook India, July 2010]

She is a well-known scholar of gender studies, authority on the political economy and social history of Haryana state in India.{{cite news |last1=Geetha |first1=V. |title=Power, violence and Dalit women |url=https://www.thehindu.com/books/power-violence-and-dalit-women/article3515761.ece |access-date=10 July 2021 |work=The Hindu |date=June 11, 2012 |quote=her study would have been richer had she placed it in the context of feminist scholarship — one thinks of Prem Chowdhry's fantastic work on changing gender relations in Haryana, for instance, and how she works with notions of caste, gender, labour and economic change.}}[http://global.oup.com/academic/product/political-economy-of-production-and-reproduction-9780198067702;jsessionid=76B4088195F4A55D75A4C5E8FB25BE5A?cc=gb&lang=en& Oxford University Press]

Career

Chowdhry is a Life Member of the Center for Women Studies.India Court of Women on Dowry and Related Forms of Violence against Women, 2009 [http://christuniversity.in/uploadimages/WomensCourt.pdf]{{cite web |url=http://www.cwds.org/aboutus.htm |title=Centre for Women's Development Studies |access-date=2013-06-06 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130826070111/http://cwds.org/aboutus.htm |archive-date=26 August 2013 |df=dmy-all }}[http://www.cwds.org/LifeMembers.pdf CWDS About Us] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105214021/http://www.cwds.org/LifeMembers.pdf |date=5 November 2013 }} She has also worked at the Indian Council of Social Science Research supported Centre for Contemporary Studies, New Delhi; an advanced studies unit of Nehru Memorial Museum & Library.Law and Social Science Research Network, Nehru Memorial Museum & Library 2008 [http://lassnet.blogspot.co.uk/2008/09/prem-chowdhry-brief-biographical-note.html]

Chowdhry is an alumna of Jawaharlal Nehru University,[http://www.jnu.ac.in/aaj/AlumniMember.asp?searchStr=P JNU Alumni Association] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130303044856/http://www.jnu.ac.in/AAJ/AlumniMember.asp?searchStr=P |date=3 March 2013 }} and professorial fellow of the University Grants Commission.

She has provided expert commentary to news media, including to The Guardian about the impact of prejudice against having a daughter in India;{{cite news |last1=Ramesh |first1=Randeep |title=Foetuses aborted and dumped secretly as India shuns baby girls |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2007/jul/28/india.randeepramesh |access-date=10 July 2021 |work=The Guardian |date=July 28, 2007}} to The Guardian,{{cite news |last1=Burke |first1=Jason |title=Triple murder in India highlights increase in 'honour killings' |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/jun/25/triple-murder-india-honour-killings |access-date=10 July 2021 |work=The Guardian |date=June 25, 2010}} Associated Press,{{cite news |last1=George |first1=Nirmala |title=Divorce or die -- old rules clash with new India |url=https://archive.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2010/07/12/divorce_or_die____old_rules_clash_with_new_india/?page=2 |access-date=10 July 2021 |work=Boston.com |agency=Associated Press |date=July 12, 2010}} TIME,{{cite magazine |last1=Singh |first1=Madhur |title=Why Are Hindu Honor Killings Rising in India? |url=https://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1991195,00.html |access-date=10 July 2021 |magazine=TIME |date=May 25, 2010}} and Reuters{{cite news |last1=Denyer |first1=Simon |title=Indian village proud after double "honor killing" |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-honourkilling-idUSDEL29449420080516 |access-date=10 July 2021 |work=Reuters |date=May 15, 2008}} about "honour killings"; to The Statesman about the Haryana social structure;{{cite news |last1=Gursoy |first1=Rabia |last2=Jalali |first2=Falah |title=Black and white selfies on social media bring awareness to violence against women |url=https://www.sbstatesman.com/2020/08/24/black-and-white-selfies-on-social-media-bring-awareness-to-violence-against-women/ |access-date=10 July 2021 |work=The Statesman |date=August 24, 2020}} to NPR about the Haryana social structure and how it relates to the rape of Dalit women;{{cite news |last1=McCarthy |first1=Julie |title=Outside The Big City, A Harrowing Sexual Assault In Rural India |url=https://www.npr.org/2013/02/08/171372687/outside-the-big-city-a-harrowing-sexual-assault-in-rural-india |access-date=10 July 2021 |work=NPR |date=February 8, 2013}} to The Indian Express about the political history of Indian cinema;{{cite news |last1=Rathi |first1=Nandini |title=1930s imperial propaganda: How star-studded western films justified British colonialism |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/research/1930s-imperial-propaganda-how-star-studded-western-films-justified-british-colonialism-4783908/ |access-date=10 July 2021 |work=The Indian Express |date=August 11, 2017}} and to Reuters about inheritance rights for women in India.{{cite news |title=As property prices rise, more Indian women claim inheritance |url=https://www.livemint.com/news/india/as-property-prices-rise-more-indian-women-claim-inheritance-1552462132830.html |access-date=10 July 2021 |work=Mint |agency=Reuters |date=March 13, 2019}} Her 2004 Modern Asian Studies article "Private Lives, State Intervention: Cases of Runaway Marriage in Rural North India" was cited by the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada in 2006.{{cite news |title=RESPONSES TO INFORMATION REQUESTS (RIRs) |url=https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/eoir/legacy/2014/02/04/IND100661.EX.pdf |access-date=10 July 2021 |work=www.justice.gov |agency=Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada |date=January 9, 2006}}

She has also written commentary in The Tribune, including about violence related to inter-caste marriages,{{cite news |last1=Chowdhry |first1=Prem |title=Violence around inter-caste marriages |url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/archive/comment/violence-around-inter-caste-marriages-803140 |access-date=10 July 2021 |work=The Tribune |date=July 19, 2019}} and advocacy for an investment in the education of girls to reduce poverty.{{cite news |last1=Chowdhry |first1=Prem |title=Invest in education for girls to reduce poverty |url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/comment/invest-in-education-for-girls-to-reduce-poverty-39014 |access-date=10 July 2021 |work=The Tribune |date=February 11, 2020}}

Art career

Chowdhry is a self-taught artist{{cite AV media | last = Chowdhry | first = Prem (artist) | year = 2008 | title =Scarlet Woman | medium = Painting: oil on canvas, for use on front cover of academic journal Signs, autumn 2010 | url = http://signsjournal.org/prem-chowdhry-scarlet-woman-2008/ | access-date = 21 February 2015 | publisher = Chicago Journals }}{{Cite journal | last = Chowdhry | first = Prem | title = Illustration | journal = Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society | volume = 36 | issue = 1 | pages = Front cover| doi = 10.1086/651184 | date = Autumn 2010 | jstor = 10.1086/651184 }} whose painting are held by the National Gallery, India{{citation needed|date=February 2020}} and the Lalit Kala Akademi, India's National Academy of Fine Arts. She started exhibiting in 1970 and her paintings often reflect on the status of women in India.{{cite news|last1=Salwat|first1=Ali|title=The Art of Dialogue|url=https://newslinemagazine.com/magazine/the-art-of-dialogue-2/ | work= Newsline Magazine |date=1 February 2008 }} Retrieved 21 February 2015.{{cite news |last1=Jayetilleke |first1=Rohan |title=Prem Chowdry explores life |url=http://archives.dailynews.lk/2004/06/02/artscop06.html |access-date=10 July 2021 |work=Daily News |date=June 2, 2004}}

Works

=Books=

{{cite book

| last = Chowdhry

| first = Prem

| title = Punjab politics: the role of Sir Chhotu Ram

| publisher = Vikas/University of Michigan

| year = 1984

| pages = 364

| isbn = 978-0706924732

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{{cite book

| last = Chowdhry

| first = Prem

| title = The Veiled Women: Shifting Gender Equations In Rural Haryana

| publisher = Oxford University Press India

| year = 1994

| isbn = 978-0195670387

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{{cite book

| last = Chowdhry

| first = Prem

| title = Colonial India and the Making of Empire Cinema: Image, Ideology and Identity

| publisher = Manchester University Press

| year = 2000

| pages = 294

| isbn = 978-0719057922

}}

{{cite book

| last = Chowdhry

| first = Prem

| title = Contentious Marriages, Eloping Couples: Gender, Caste, and Patriarchy in Northern India

| publisher = Oxford University Press

| date = Jul 2009

| pages = 360

| isbn = 978-0198063612

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{{cite book

| last = Chowdhry

| first = Prem

| title = Gender Discrimination in Land Ownership

| publisher = Sage Publications

| year = 2010

| pages = 314

| isbn = 978-8178299426

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{{cite book

| last = Chowdhry

| first = Prem

| title = Political Economy of Production and Reproduction

| publisher = Oxford University Press

| year = 2011

| pages = 464

| isbn = 9780198067702

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{{cite book

| last = Chowdhry

| first = Prem

| title = Understanding Politics And Society – Hardwari Lal

| publisher = Manak publications

| year = 2011

| pages = 423

| isbn = 978-8178312279

}}

=Papers=

{{cite journal | last = Chowdhry | first = Prem | title = Socio-economic dimensions of certain customs and attitudes: women of Haryana in the colonial period | journal = Economic and Political Weekly | volume = 22 | issue = 48 | pages = 2060–2066 | date = 28 November 1987 | jstor = 4377793 }}
{{cite journal | last = Chowdhry | first = Prem | title = Alternative to the Sati model: perceptions of a social reality in folklore | journal = Asian Folklore Studies | volume = 49 | issue = 2 | pages = 259–274 | doi = 10.2307/1178036 | date = 1990 | jstor = 1178036 }}
{{cite journal | last = Chowdhry | first = Prem | title = High participation, low evaluation: women and work in rural Haryana | journal = Economic and Political Weekly | volume = 28 | issue = 52 | pages = A–135–A–137 and A–140–A–148 | date = 25 December 1993 | jstor = 4400591 }}
{{cite journal | last = Chowdhry | first = Prem | title = Conjugality, law and state: inheritance rights as pivot of control in Northern India | journal = Indo-British Review | volume = 21 | issue = 1 | pages = 59–72 | oclc = 193906854 | date = 1996 }}
{{cite journal | last = Chowdhry | first = Prem | title = Contours of communalism: religion, caste and identity in South-East Punjab | journal = Social Scientist | volume = 24 | issue = 4/6 | pages = 130–163 | date = April–June 1996 | doi =10.2307/3517794 | jstor = 3517794 }}
{{cite journal | last = Chowdhry | first = Prem | title = Marriage, sexuality and the female 'ascetic': understanding a Hindu sect | journal = Economic and Political Weekly | volume = 31 | issue = 34 | pages = 2307–2321 | date = 24 August 1996 | jstor = 4404549 }}
{{cite journal | last = Chowdhry | first = Prem | title = Enforcing cultural codes: gender and violence in Northern India | journal = Economic and Political Weekly | volume = 32 | issue = 19 | pages = 1019–1028 | date = 10 May 1997 | jstor = 4405393 }}
{{cite journal | last = Chowdhry | first = Prem | title = Propaganda and protest: the myth of the Muslim menace in an empire film (The Drum, 1938) | journal = Studies in History | volume = 16 | issue = 1 | pages = 109–130 | doi = 10.1177/025764300001600105 | date = February 2000 | s2cid = 159486594 }}
{{cite journal | last = Chowdhry | first = Prem | title = Lustful women, elusive lovers identifying males as objects of female desire | journal = Indian Journal of Gender Studies | volume = 8 | issue = 1 | pages = 23–50 | doi = 10.1177/097152150100800102 | date = January–July 2001 | s2cid = 143881077 }}
{{cite journal | last = Chowdhry | first = Prem | title = Crisis of masculinity in Haryana: the unmarried, the unemployed and the aged | journal = Economic and Political Weekly | volume = 40 | issue = 49 | pages = 5189–5198 | date = 3 December 2005 | jstor = 4417491 }}
{{cite journal | last = Chowdhry | first = Prem | title = Women in the army | journal = Economic and Political Weekly | volume = 45 | issue = 31 | date = 31 July 2010 | url = http://www.epw.in/commentary/women-army.html }}

Personal life

She is the daughter of Hardwari Lal,[http://www.tribuneindia.com/2011/20110327/spectrum/book6.htm Reformist revisited], Humra Quraishi, The Tribune India. 27 March 2011 the educationist and Indian National Congress member of parliament for Haryana.[https://dsal.uchicago.edu/books/socialscientist/text.html?objectid=HN681.S597_244-46_114.gif] Social Scientist. v 21, no. 244-46 (Sept–Nov 1993) p. 112

References

External links

[http://www.epw.in/authors/prem-chowdhry Prem Chowdhry – Economic and Political Weekly]
[http://www.ichrindia.org ICHR Website]
[http://www.cwds.org/ Centre for Women's Development Studies Website]

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