• Ritu K. Sureka
• Anjali Mathur
• Anshu

This paper does a comparative analysis of the prevalence and intensity of intimate partner sexual violence against the rural and urban dalit women (19-40 years) of Prayagraj district and conduct intervention techniques like counselling, awareness generation and gender sensitisation for combating such violence. Systematic Random Sampling method was adopted for the selection of district, blocks and villages as well as for the selection of dalit women (120 each from the rural and urban areas) Pre-designed valid and reliable scales were used for collecting data on sexual violence. Urban respondents experienced more sexual violence as compared to the rural respondents. Significant differences were observed between rural and urban respondents for moderate magnitude of sexual violence. Highly significant differences were also seen among the respondents in the magnitude of sexual violence before and after intervention (p<0.001). The study revealed that intervention was fruitful in combating intimate partner sexual violence against the dalit women.

sexual violence, dalit women, rural, urban, intervention

"Intimate Partner Sexual violence against Dalit women: Understanding the rural urban differences", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 9, page no.d651-d664, September-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2209377.pdf

"Intimate Partner Sexual violence against Dalit women: Understanding the rural urban differences", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 9, page no. ppd651-d664, September-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2209377.pdf