Looks at how the Indian state, law and citizenship shape women's lives.
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Movement archive · India
India1979 to 1983
In 1978 the Supreme Court acquitted two policemen accused of raping Mathura, a young Adivasi woman, inside a police station in Maharashtra. An open letter from four law teachers challenging the judgment set off protests across the country and gave the modern Indian women's movement one of its first national campaigns.
Upendra Baxi, Lotika Sarkar, Vasudha Dhagamwar and Raghunath Kelkar (authors of the open letter); Forum Against Rape (later Forum Against Oppression of Women), Mumbai.
Recognition of custodial rape as a distinct crime, a shift in the burden of proof on consent in custodial cases, and an end to judging survivors by their sexual history.
Look for histories of the Indian women's movement in the 1970s and 1980s, and the open letter itself.
Looks at how the Indian state, law and citizenship shape women's lives.
From ₹650 (sample price)