Participation of Scheduled Caste Women in Politics - A case study of Rural and Urban Women of Nainital District of Kumaun region

The present study is an attempt to know the extent of political participation of rural and urban scheduled caste women of Nainital district of Kumaun region. Non-probability purposive sampling technique was adopted for selecting the sample of 300 women. For the purpose of this study Nainital town was considered to represent the urban area and three villages, namely, Beluwakhan, Kuriagaon and Gethiya from Bhimtal Block were selected to represent the rural area which had sufficiently large proportion of scheduled caste population. This study shows that the involvement of women in politics is still in the darkness of traditional culture. They do turn up of in large numbers for voting but lag behind in other activities of political participation.