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In this book, David Brick offers an exhaustive history of the treatment and status of widows under classical Hindu law, or Dharmasastra as it is called in Sanskrit, which spanned approximately the third century BCE to the eighteenth-century CE.
- The Study of Widows Under Hindu Law in India
Brick’s new book, coming out later this year, Widows Under...
- The Study of Widows Under Hindu Law in India
Mar 23, 2023 · The introduction begins by explaining the scholarly value of an exhaustive history of widows under Hindu law. For scholars of colonial and modern India, such a history provides crucial context for understanding important colonial debates on Hindu widows.
According to Hindu tradition, a widow cannot remarry. She has to hide in the house, remove her jewellery and wear the colour of mourning.
The first major developments in the treatment and status of widows under Hindu law begin around the fifth century CE and take place especially during the second half of the first millennium.
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 ...
Mar 23, 2023 · This book comprises the first exhaustive history of the treatment and status of widows under classical Hindu law or Dharmaśāstra, as it is called in Sanskrit.
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.
