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<journal-title>African Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences</journal-title>
<issn pub-type="epub">2789-3413</issn>
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<subject>Research Paper</subject>
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<article-title>Violence Against Women in India: An Intersectional Approach to Human Rights</article-title>
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<name><surname>Bharti</surname><given-names>Simant Shankar</given-names></name>
<xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff001"><sup>1</sup></xref>
<xref ref-type="corresp" rid="cor001"><sup>*</sup></xref>
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<aff id="aff001"><sup>1</sup><instname>Faculty of Political Science and International Studies, University of Warsaw</instname>, <instcountry>Poland</instcountry>. E-mail: <email>s.bharti@uw.edu.pl</email></aff>
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<corresp id="cor001"><sup>*</sup>Corresponding author: Simant Shankar Bharti, <instname>Doctoral Candidate at Faculty of Political Science and International Studies, University of Warsaw</instname>, <instcity>Warsaw</instcity>, <instcountry>Poland</instcountry>. E-mail: <email>s.bharti@uw.edu.pl</email></corresp>
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<month>08</month>
<year>2021</year>
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<volume>1</volume>
<issue>1</issue>
<fpage>16</fpage>
<lpage>22</lpage>
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<p>Violence is physical and mental harassment that manifests in the forms of torture, harm, untouchably, insult, abuses, brutality, and many times in subtle forms. Women are generally suffered from this kind of violence not only in India and also in the entire world albeit reasons and forms of violence differ from regions to regions. The intersectional approach suggests that we will have to look at multiple forms of oppression and treat women as a heterogeneous category where factors like caste, class, region, locality, and language, and many others affects women in different ways and there is no single or only one form of oppression. For instance, the problem of Dalit women is completely different from upper-caste women. There is a tendency to treat women as a homogenous category and oversimplifying their oppression as something which affects all women across caste and class in the same manner. The rationale for such commonsense makes only sense when we consider women in relation to men as a whole. This reductionist approach to the question of women&#x2019;s oppression which ignores internal differences leads to later marginalization of marginalized among women and also creates new forms of discrimination and hierarchies which ultimately affects the lower strata of women and keeps their problem unheard and unanswered. Likewise, this paper explores all these aspects.</p>
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<title>Keywords</title>
<kwd>Violence against women</kwd>
<kwd>Domestic-violence</kwd>
<kwd>India</kwd>
<kwd>Human-trafficking</kwd>
<kwd>Social work</kwd>
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