KHAP PANCHAYATS IN RELATION TO WOMEN’S HUMAN RIGHTS: INDIAN PERSPECTIVE
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The word ‘Khap’ connotes village area inhabited by a clan.65 ‘Panchayat’ literally means assembly
of five prudent and respected elders chosen and accepted by the village community. Thus, “Khap
Panchayats” connotes an institution which controls a particular area where it has supremacy either
in the name of the clan or the gotra66, which either controls that area, or by the name of
geographical area.67
Khap Panchayats evolved in different geographical areas and were shaped by a range of socio-
economic factors. Of these, other than the issue of clan, the two most important were caste68 and
ownership of land.
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