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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
Under Dharmasastra, Hindu jurists treated at length and at...
- Widows Under Hindu Law
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.
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.
Mar 23, 2023 · This chapter focuses on one particular legal issue involving widows over which there was much disagreement in Dharmaśāstra works of the ancient and medieval periods. This issue is a widow’s right to inherit her husband’s property.
reformers- sati , prohibition of widow remarriage, polygamy etc- are crucially tied up with the issue of their property rights. The paper focuses on Rammohun Roy's concern for the inheritance rights of Hindu women. The earliest reference to the issue goes back to 1822, in a tract entitled "Brief Remarks Regarding Modern
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.
During this time, 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.
