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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.
Therefore, the most striking feature of the high-caste Hindu widow in early colonial times—her stark choice between either self-immolation or an unrelentingly hard life of material deprivation and social exclusion—only became established in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
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.
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.
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 distinction which was made by the Bombay, Calcutta, and Madras High Courts depended on whether or not the widow's remarriage preceded the son's death: the mother could inherit from her son if she had remarried during the son's lifetime; but if she remained a widow during her son's life, succeeded to the property on his death, and then ...
polygamy, sati, and the pathetic condition of widows in our society. He argues that due to the modern encroachments in the Dayabhaga law, Hindus have been relieved from the necessity of giving an equal portion to their wives, and thus no restraint existed as to the number of wives they could marry. The increase in polygamy made the plight of
