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According to Hindu tradition, a widow cannot remarry. She has to hide in the house, remove her jewellery and wear the colour of mourning. She becomes a source of shame for her family, loses...
- Hindu Succession Act of 1956
- Inheritance Among Muslims
- Indian Succession Act 1925
Since inheritance falls under personal law, it is different for different religions. Primarily there are three different types of laws for inheritance and so in the case of widows in India. Unsplash/Representational image The laws of inheritance for Hindus, Sikhs, Jains are governed by the Hindu Succession Act of 1956.The act lays down laws with re...
Inheritance in Muslims in India on the other hand is governed by their religious laws or the Shariat. As per the Shariat, the inheritance of specific relative and specific cases is fixed. With regards to a widow, upon the death of a man, his wife inherits one-eighth of his property. The rest is inherited by the rest of his relatives. This is the ca...
Inheritance in Christians in India is governed by the Indian Succession Act 1925. In the case of a widow, she inherits one-third of her husband’s property in the case of children. The rest of the property shall go to the rest of the inheritors. In case of no children, the widow inherits half of the deceased husband’s property and the rest of it goe...
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Mar 23, 2023 · This chapter deals with the most widely discussed and hotly debated aspect of traditional Hindu widowhood: sati, that is, the practice of a Hindu widow committing suicide by ascending her husband’s funeral pyre. The chapter outlines how the views of Hindu jurists changed on this topic.
Mar 1, 2023 · Brick’s new book, “Widows Under Hindu Law,” is a detailed textual and historical analysis of four widow-related topics in India: widow remarriage and levirate; widows’ rights of inheritance; widow-asceticism; and the custom of sati, a former practice in India where a widow burned herself to death on her husband’s funeral pyre.
Under Dharmasastra, Hindu jurists treated at length and at times hotly debated four widow-related issues: widow remarriage and levirate, a widow's right to inherit her husband's estate, widow-asceticism, and sati.
Beyond this, Jīmūtavāhana and subsequent Hindu jurists of Bengal even go so far as to eliminate the Mitākṣarā’s requirement that, in order for a woman to inherit her husband’s estate, he must have received his paternal inheritance and not reunited with his coparceners. And, regarding this development, it is noteworthy that evidence ...
Brick’s new book, coming out later this year, Widows Under Hindu Law, is a thorough study of widows in India and includes a detailed textual and historical analysis of four widow-related topics: widow remarriage and levirate; widows’ rights of inheritance; widow-asceticism; and the custom of sati, a former practice in India where a widow ...
