Custom and the Courts: Ensuring Women's Rights to Land, Jharkhand, India

摘要: Based on field research in Dumka district, Jharkhand, this article examines the mechanisms through which women operationalize their rights to land. It questions polarization of legitimation systems into statutory codes and customary practices, as operating independent each other, demonstrates political temporal situatedness ‘law’, processes hybridization that allow for actualization a legal right, by providing it social recognition validity. The explores choice different arenas making claims, with particular arena depending not just access resource availability, but also women's positionality.