Milk Revolution: Stories of Indian Women from the Mountains of Garhwal

Abstract

Stories gathered around the milk created the milk stories for women in India. White Revolution served as a means of financial independence and women created niche of their own. While the stories of women have always been an inspiration for the world, however, the main motivation remained the women of the rural background who have poor economic conditions and uncertain means of livelihood. In Uttarakhand, a hilly state of India, especially in Uttarkashi and Tehri Garhwal, there are numerous stories worth telling of the survival of women and the common factor among all of them has been the ‘milk’ and there is enough data which proves that how milk had been a boon for the downtrodden society of India since the great revolution started which was named: “Operation Milk.”