Sikkimese Women's Differentiated Citizenship: Postcoloniality, Indigeneity, and Gender in India

本项目探讨了后殖民时期的法规和公民身份的做法是如何在印度东北部锡金人中沿着性别和印第安人的轴线运作的，以及锡金妇女是如何经历的。这项研究结合了间接统治的后殖民遗产，即殖民政权使用习惯法作为统治殖民地人口的一种手段，与土著女权主义者对公民身份的看法，以探讨这些遗产是如何影响今天锡金妇女的生活的。它特别侧重于父系国籍法，这些法律限制妇女在与土著群体以外的人结婚时将其锡金臣民身份以及不动产传给子女的权利。除了批判性地分析锡金人主体地位的父系传承规则的法律的文件，以及与律师和政策制定者的访谈外，这项研究还为锡金妇女提供了发言权，以了解她们如何通过婚姻制度体验和谈判其不同的公民身份。通过这样做，研究产生了新的知识，不仅对锡金男女之间的法律的平等的挑战，以及性别和印度之间的复杂关系，而且更广泛地说，它提供了一个新的视角，女权主义知识的理论和分析在全球南部后殖民社会的印度，权利和公民身份。

This project examines how postcolonial regulations and practices of citizenship operate among the Sikkimese in Northeast India along the axes of gender and indigeneity, and how they are experienced by Sikkimese women. The study combines the postcolonial legacy of indirect rule, that is, the use of customary law by colonial powers as a means of ruling colonised populations, with indigenous feminist perspectives on citizenship to examine how such legacies are brought to bear on the lives of Sikkimese women today. It focuses specifically on patrilineal citizenship laws that curtail the rights of women to pass on their Sikkimese subjecthood, and by extension immovable property, to their children if they marry outside their indigenous group. Alongside a critical analysis of legal documents on the patrilineal rules of transmission for Sikkimese subjecthood, and interviews with lawyers and policymakers, the research gives voice to Sikkimese women to understand how they experience and negotiate their differentiated citizenship through the institution of marriage. By doing so, the research produces new knowledge not only about the challenges towards legal equality between womenand men in Sikkim, and the complex relationships between gender and indigeneity in India, but also more broadly it offers a new perspective to feminist knowledge by theorising and analysing indigeneity, rights and citizenship in postcolonial societies in the global south.