Rural Women’s Struggle for Empowerment: A Case Study of Sindhiani Tehreek’s Resistance and Resilience

Abstract

This research paper examines the transformative role of Sindhiani Tehreek which was formed in 1982 under the leadership of Rasool Bux Palijo and scores of women’s who’s belonged to peasant’s families. The Sindhiani tehreek also known as Women’s movement of rural Sindh. Tehreek emerged as progressive movement, aimed for safeguarding the women right, empowering women in every field of life because women were facing lots of challenges due to patriarchal norms. However, the tehreek had adopted various strategies such as uniting women to challenge male dominated structure and oppressive political system that created obstacles to women in the rural Sindh. Moreover, this work will highlight another aspect Sindhiani Tehreek’s like redefined Sindhi nationalism and struggle for equality in the rural society. Additionally, this research work has used various techniques and methods for data collection and to accelerate the quality of research, researchers chose to adopt qualitative methods of Historical research.