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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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Jul 31, 2024 · Thus, widowhood in India has become a widely recognised identity for women, symbolising their exposure to mistreatment and categorisation as a vulnerable group (Agarwal et al. 2021). Even from a demographical perspective, there is significant gender disparity in the widowed population in India.
- Babul Hossain
Jun 21, 2021 · In some contexts, widows may be perceived as “carriers” of disease and forced out of social structures entirely or subjected to “ritual cleansing” practices involving forced sex or bodily scarring that can have life-threatening health consequences.
Mar 7, 2016 · Many communities in India still shun widows and they are abandoned by their families due to superstition. Thousands of widows, most of them disowned and abandoned by their families, live in...
Nov 6, 2012 · We investigate the lives of Indian women as they become widows, focussing on the causes of their husband’s mortality and the ensuing consequences of these causes on their own lives and identify the opportunities and challenges that widows face in living healthy and fulfilling lives.
- Katia Sarla Mohindra, Slim Haddad, Delampady Narayana
- 2012
Nov 7, 2020 · According to the United Nations, India is home to almost 42 million of the world’s 115 million poor widows. Vrindavan, called the "city of widows", has an estimated 20,000 widows who are mostly...
Nov 4, 2021 · Widowhood is a catastrophic event at any stage of life for the surviving partner particularly in old age, with serious repercussions on their physical, economic, and emotional well-being. This...
