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Capable Women, Incapable States: Negotiating Violence and Rights in India. By Poulami Roychowdhury. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. 252 pp. $110.00 (cloth), $32.95 (paper). https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190881894.001.0001.

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Capable Women, Incapable States: Negotiating Violence and Rights in India. By Poulami Roychowdhury. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. 252 pp. $110.00 (cloth), $32.95 (paper). https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190881894.001.0001.

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Politics & Gender , Volume 19 , Issue 3 , September 2023 , pp. 967 - 969
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