{"id":44228,"date":"2022-05-06T19:00:03","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T10:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/may\/06\/challenging-patriarchal-land-rights-india-shreya-kalia"},"modified":"2022-05-06T19:00:03","modified_gmt":"2022-05-06T10:00:03","slug":"my-grandmother-is-challenging-patriarchal-land-values-in-india-im-so-proud-of-her-shreya-kalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=44228","title":{"rendered":"My grandmother is challenging patriarchal land values in India. I\u2019m so proud of her | Shreya Kalia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daughters too often get cut out of their inheritance, but more women are standing up for their rights \u2013 and change is coming<\/p>\n<p>When my 67-year-old grandmother, Poli, learned that her four brothers had divided all the family land among themselves, she was furious. \u201cWhen I asked my brothers to give me an equal share, they said, \u2018what do you need this land for?<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018You are old, your husband is dead, your daughters are married. What will you do with it?\u2019 They threatened to call the police on me,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2022\/may\/06\/challenging-patriarchal-land-rights-india-shreya-kalia\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daughters too often get cut out of their inheritance, but more women are standing up for their rights \u2013 and change is comingWhen my 67-year-old grandmother, Poli, learned that her four brothers had divided all the family land among themselves, she was &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3053,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[65,646,59,62,502,79,61,281,617,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-gender","category-global-development","category-india","category-land-rights","category-society","category-south-and-central-asia","category-women","category-womens-rights-and-gender-equality","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3053"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44228"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44229,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44228\/revisions\/44229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}