India’s women’s reservation bill : increasing women’s representation through electoral engineering

The Women's Reservation Bill was originally introduced into the Indian Parliament in 1996. It promised a reservation of 33% for women in all legislatures. Since then, the Bill has been introduced and temporarily set aside three times - the last of which occurred in May 2003. All major political...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sull, Menka
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/15308