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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 the right to participate in religious life and becomes socially isolated.
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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.
- Widows Under Hindu Law | U-M LSA Medieval and Early Modern ...
In this book, David Brick offers an exhaustive history of...
- The Study of Widows Under Hindu Law in India
Brick’s new book, coming out later this year, Widows Under...
- Widows Under Hindu Law | U-M LSA Medieval and Early Modern ...
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...
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.
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 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.
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.
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 ...
