Delhi University to establish Centre for Tribal Studies (CTS) with an aim to understand the diversity of tribal practices, culture, language, religion, economy, commonalities and relationship with nature through an India-centric perspective.
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Our Reporter Dimapur, Oct. 27 (EMN): Assistant professor of History department, Assam University, Diphu campus, Mahua Bhattacharjee, on Thursday, shared that social sciences have been dominated by men for so long that women have almost been written off from history and record. Unlike men, she said there is a need to organise special seminars and workshops just so that people can talk about women. “We still are in the process of writing back women into history and this says a lot about our society,” she added. Bhattacharjee was speaking at the inaugural programme of a two-day national seminar on “Women of Northeast India and Indian Freedom Movement” at Pranabananda Women’s College (PWC). “When we talk about human history, our job is not to write off the man, but we should include women in those pages,” she said. Further, Bhattacharjee stated that equality that is applicable in public spaces is absent in the private space, and domestic violence is very much prevalent in the tribal societies. “A woman is bound by tradition as someone who should look after the family and there is nothing wrong in that, but it is wrong to expect a woman to do that or assign them...