Thinker
Uma Chakravarti
Uma Chakravarti is central to 14 previous-year questions, spanning 2010 to 2024 across Paper I and Paper II. Everything below is drawn from the official papers — the questions themselves, the concepts they test, and where they sit in the syllabus.
14Questions
2010–24Years tested
I & IIPaper
4Syllabus topics
Concepts asked alongside Uma Chakravarti
What the examiner actually wants you to know when this name appears.
patriarchy 9sexual division of labour 6intersectionality 5structural violence 4commodification of women 3gender socialisation 3backlash thesis 2brahmanical patriarchy 2control over female sexuality 2public and private divide 2son preference 2anonymity of the citycaste discriminationcaste honourcontinuum of violencecontrol of female sexualityendogamyendogamy and caste boundaries
Where Uma Chakravarti appears in the syllabus
Every question on Uma Chakravarti
Each links to a full breakdown — how to approach it, a model answer, and the examiner’s perspective.
2024
2019
2017
- Despite gains from the women's movement and state policy of women empowerment, gender equality is far from achieved. Identify two major challenges that prevent this goal from being reached.
- What are the reasons for the escalation of violence against women in the public domain?
- What, according to you, are the two fundamental axes of social discrimination in Indian society? Are they changing?
2016
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