Prem Chowdhry
Prem Chowdhry is an Indian social scientist, historian, and Senior Academic Fellow at the Indian Council of Historical Research, New Delhi. She is a feminist and critic of violence against couples refusing arranged marriages. She is a well-known scholar of gender studies, authority on the political economy and social history of Haryana state in India.
Prem Chowdhry
- Name
- Prem Chowdhry
- Born
- 1944
- Birthplace
- India
- Occupation
- Academic, activist, artist
- Nationality
- India · British Raj · Dominion of India
- Education
- Jawaharlal Nehru University
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Prem Chowdhry is an Indian social scientist, historian, and Senior Academic Fellow at the Indian Council of Historical Research, New Delhi. She is a feminist and critic of violence against couples refusing arranged marriages. She is a well-known scholar of gender studies, authority on the political economy and social history of Haryana state in India.
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Key facts
• Name — Prem Chowdhry • Born — 1944 • Birthplace — India • Occupation — Academic, activist, artist
Career
Career
Chowdhry is a Life Member of the Center for Women Studies. 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. Chowdhry is an alumna of Jawaharlal Nehru University, 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; to The Guardian, Associated Press, TIME, and Reuters about "honour killings"; to The Statesman about the Haryana social structure; to NPR about the Haryana social structure and how it relates to the rape of Dalit women; to The Indian Express about the political history of Indian cinema; and to Reuters about inheritance rights for women in India. 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. She has also written commentary in The Tribune, including about violence related to inter-caste marriages, and advocacy for an investment in the education of girls to reduce poverty.
Art career
Art career
Chowdhry is a self-taught artist whose painting are held by the National Gallery, India 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.
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Personal life
Personal life
She is the daughter of Hardwari Lal, the educationist and Indian National Congress member of parliament for Haryana.
Identity
Identity
Prem Chowdhry is recorded as painter, politician, sociologist and historian.
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Life and career
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1944
Prem Chowdhry born at India.
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scholarly publication
- Book Review: Prem Chowdhry (ed.), <i>Gender Discrimination in Landownership</i>, Contributions to Indian Sociology, 2013
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2013
- Book review: Prem Chowdhry, Gender, Power and Identity: Essays on Masculinities in Rural North India, Indian Journal of Gender Studies, 2020
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2020
- Gender, Power, and Identity: Essays on Masculinities in Rural North India, by Prem Chowdhry, Anthropologica, 2022
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2022
- Prem Chowdhry (ed.), Gender Discrimination in Land Ownership. New Delhi: SAGE. 2009. 314 pages. Rs 795, Indian Journal of Gender Studies, 2011
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2011
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q16106584: Prem Chowdhry
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- “Prem Chowdhry”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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scholarly publication
Book Review: Prem Chowdhry (ed.), <i>Gender Discrimination in Landownership</i>, Contributions to Indian Sociology, 2013Crossref registry
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Book review: Prem Chowdhry, Gender, Power and Identity: Essays on Masculinities in Rural North India, Indian Journal of Gender Studies, 2020Crossref registry
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Gender, Power, and Identity: Essays on Masculinities in Rural North India, by Prem Chowdhry, Anthropologica, 2022Crossref registry
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Prem Chowdhry (ed.), Gender Discrimination in Land Ownership. New Delhi: SAGE. 2009. 314 pages. Rs 795, Indian Journal of Gender Studies, 2011Crossref registry
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