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Western patriarchy which surrenders feminine principles is the new development project in India. Do you agree with this view? Why?

  • UPSC 2018
  • Systems of Kinship in India

The proposition is Vandana Shiva's, from Staying Alive: Women, Ecology and Development (1988). Her claim is that post-colonial development imported a Western, masculinist model of progress that treats nature as inert matter and women's subsistence labour as non-production, and thereby ruptured the feminine principle. I agree with the diagnosis of displacement and reject the essentialism…

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  • Shiva's argument: development as maldevelopment
  • What survives the test
  • Why the framing must nonetheless be rejected
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