A rural women’s movement in north India has played a significant role in dismantling the existing power structures and overcoming gender-based exclusion from ownership of land and its management. Ensuring women’s equal rights over land and other forms of property and inheritance has been flagged as one of the key strategies for ending global poverty under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which India, along with other UN member states, committed to in September last year. Its idea is to promote their women’s empowerment by giving them “equal rights to economic resources as well as access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property, financial services.”

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