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Gender inequalityGender inequality inInequality landTribal ownershipWidows isState a pervasive phenomenon across South Asia. WomenWomen face a taboo against working outside the home and a lack of opportunities to create wealth. Inheritance is the primary source of women’sWomen property, especially landed property in IndiaIndia. Personal laws recognise women’sWomen rights to property without work across all religions, albeit with varying shares. Laws governing land acknowledge both men’s and women’sWomen equal rights to livelihoodLivelihood. Thus, land as private propertyPrivate property and agricultural land are two categories over which womenWomen can make claims. However, womenWomen from various social groups and religions who work are often excluded from land rights. The case study of a tribalTribal widow’sWidows bid for land in the eastern stateState of West BengalWest Bengal illustrates how the convergence of two laws may render rural, agrarian womenWomen as ‘double beneficiaries’. Single womenWomen, such as unmarried daughters, or those who are deserted, divorced, or widowed—who are most in need of land—may become landowners through their labour and the inheritance principle, provided that both laws complement each other.

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Rethinking Land Rights to Reduce Inequality: Land Claim of a Tribal Widow From an Indian State

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    2026年

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  • Rai Ganguly

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Gender inequalityGender inequality inInequality landTribal ownershipWidows isState a pervasive phenomenon across South Asia. WomenWomen face a taboo against working outside the home and a lack of opportunities to create wealth. Inheritance is the primary source of women’sWomen property, especially landed property in IndiaIndia. Personal laws recognise women’sWomen rights to property without work across all religions, albeit with varying shares. Laws governing land acknowledge both men’s and women’sWomen equal rights to livelihoodLivelihood. Thus, land as private propertyPrivate property and agricultural land are two categories over which womenWomen can make claims. However, womenWomen from various social groups and religions who work are often excluded from land rights. The case study of a tribalTribal widow’sWidows bid for land in the eastern stateState of West BengalWest Bengal illustrates how the convergence of two laws may render rural, agrarian womenWomen as ‘double beneficiaries’. Single womenWomen, such as unmarried daughters, or those who are deserted, divorced, or widowed—who are most in need of land—may become landowners through their labour and the inheritance principle, provided that both laws complement each other.