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- Title
TRADITIONS, COMMUNITY, AND ELECTIONS: GENDERING ELECTORAL POLITICS IN NAGALAND.
- Authors
Kuotsu, Renchumi Kikon; Wati Walling, A.
- Abstract
This article aims to bring forth the electoral practices of the Nagas in the Northeastern part of India that are laced with their traditional innuendos aff ecting negatively the outcome of women's aspirations in electoral politics. Although democratic institutions, elections and electioneering processes are a refl ection of modernity and rationalization, in Nagaland, traditional practices, principles, and values remain robust when it comes to electing political leaders through balloting. The customary practices of the Nagas concerning the issues of power and authority have come to crystallize into new modes and forms of electoral practices. In such a scenario, it becomes extremely diffi cult for women to come to the political forefront by the mechanism of elections.
- Subjects
NAGALAND (India); INDIA; ELECTIONS; PRACTICAL politics; RATIONALIZATION (Sociology); WOMEN in politics
- Publication
Indian Journal of Social Research, 2018, Vol 59, Issue 5, p735
- ISSN
0019-5626
- Publication type
Article