AbstractThe 73rd and 74th Amendments of the Indian Constitutions in 1992 and 1993 respectively provided for 33 percentage of eservation for women both in the Panchayath and urban local bodies. This amendment has opened a new chapter in the history of women’s fight for rights and empowerment. Women political reservation could change a political situation very drastically from the grassroots level. On March 9, 2010, the Rajya Sabha passed the Women Reservation Bill increasing women’s representationin the Local Self Government bodies (LSG). It was an outcome of fourteen years of women's struggles. Bihar was the first State to implement women reservation in Panchayath Raj level of 2005, Kerala was the sixth state to implement such a law and also Kerala declared 50% reservation in Panchayath Raj Institution on 2010 for empowering women to be the part of our politics and also been empowered all walks of their life. The present study tries to analyse political empowerment in Muslim women in Kerala after enter into the LSG in Kerala. In the past the Muslim women found themselves in a very a pathetic condition. Muslim women were despised many walks of their life due to the entrenched customs and beliefs that led them to marginalized life compared to other women in the society. The enhancement of women reservation to fifty percent led to fifty percent women elected to the PanchayathMunicipalities, corporation, Block and District Panchayath. The present study attempts to investigate the changes brought about in the status and position of Muslim women as a member in Local Self Government after getting the reservation and also how this transformation has affected them, their whole political field. It observed that they have acquired real empowerment of their entire life and in political decision-making. In this situation, the study is more feasible
and significant.