Bina Agarwal

Bina Agarwal is a Professor of development economics and environment at the University of Manchester, UK, and former Director of the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi, India. She is the author of several books, and in 2005 successfully campaigned to amend the Hindu Inheritance law to make it gender equal

India: Whose law is it anyway ?

Cultural justifications for upholding Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code which criminalizes homosexuality are untenable, given the colonial antecedents of the legislation, the cultural heterogeneity of the populations it was imposed upon, and the liberal sexual mores which prevailed among many s

By Bina Agarwal

/ 6 Jan 2014