Understanding Women's Empowerment in South Asia : Perspectives on Entitlements and Violations

1 Introduction -- 2 Before NGOs: Women's Organizations in Colonial India -- 3 Politics of Women's Empowerment and Non-Governmental Organizations -- 4 NGO Activism and Women's Empowerment in India -- 5 Women’s Participation in Rural Local Governance of Bangladesh: Progress and Challenges -- 6 Reproductive Health of Women and Human Development in Nepal -- 7 Role of Microfinance in Empowering Woman Entrepreneurs in Rural Sri Lanka -- 8 Lives in Neglect, Deceit and Violence: Voices and Agencies of Trafficked Women -- 9 Multiplying Insecurity: Disempowerment of Women's Agency in the Logistics of Transnational Trafficking Networks of South Asia -- 10 Equalizing Gender Imbalance in a Globalized World.