The Position of Women in Hindu Law
Author | : Dwarka Nath Mitter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 790 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Hindu law |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Dwarka Nath Mitter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 790 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Hindu law |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Dwarka Nath Mitter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 774 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : Hindu law |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Reena Patel |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2018-02-06 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1351156381 |
Hindu women in India have independent right of ownership to property under the Law of Succession (The Hindu Succession Act, 1956). However, during the last five decades of its operation not many women have exercised their rights under the enactment. This volume addresses the issue of Hindu peasant women's ability to effectuate the statutory rights to succession and assert ownership of their share in family land. The work combines a critical evaluation of law with economic analyses into allocation of resources within the family as a means of addressing gender relations and explaining resulting gender inequalities.
Author | : Kulwant Gill |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 538 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Study covers Vedic period to modern times.
Author | : Srimati Basu |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1999-02-25 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0791495922 |
Using the contemporary workings of property law in India through the lives and thoughts of middle-class and poor women, this is a study of the ways in which cultural practices, and particularly notions of gender ideology, guide the workings of law. It urges a close reading of decisions by women that appear to be contrary to material interests and that reinforce patriarchal ideologies. Hailed as a radical moment for gender equality, the Hindu Succession Act was passed in India in 1956 theoretically giving Hindu women the right to equal inheritance of their parents' self-acquired property. However, in the years since the act's existence, its provisions have scarcely been utilized. Using interview data drawn from middle-class and poor neighborhoods in Delhi, this book explores the complexity of women's decisions with regard to family property in this context. The book shows that it is not passivity, ignorance of the law, naiveté about wealth, or unthinking adherence to gender prescriptions that guides women's decisions, but rather an intricate negotiation of kinship and an optimization of socioeconomic and emotional needs. An examination of recent legal cases also reveals that the formal legal realm can be hospitable to women's rights-based claims, but judgments are still coded in terms of customary provisions despite legal criteria to the contrary.
Author | : Ramabai Sarasvati |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 1887 |
Genre | : Hindu women |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Anjani Kant |
Publisher | : APH Publishing |
Total Pages | : 554 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9788176484565 |
This Book Analyses Every Aspect Of Indian Women In Different Spheres Of Life From Vedic Period To Contemporary Society.
Author | : A.S. Altekar |
Publisher | : Motilal Banarsidass |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 2016-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 8120803256 |
There are some monographs that deal with the position of Hindu women in particular periods of Indian history, but no work has as yet been written which reviews their position throughout the long history of Hindu civilisation. An attempt has been made in this book to describe the position of women in Hindu civilisation from prehistoric times to the present day, and to indicate the general lines on which the various problems that confront Hindu women (and therefore men also) should be tackled in order to get a fairly satisfactory solution. The opening chapter deals with the problems relating to the childhood and education of women. Then follow two chapters (II and III), which deal with the numerous complex problems connected with marriage and married life. In the next two chapters (IV and V), the position of the widow in society has been considered. The place of women in public life and religion has been dealt with in chapters VI and VII. In chapters VIII and IX various questions connected with proprietary rights have been discussed. Fashions of dress, ornaments and coiffure are described in chapter X and illustrated with eight plates. Chapter XI deals with the general attitude of society towards women, both in normal and abnormal times and situations. The Position of Women in Hindu Civilization will enable the reader to understand the subject from a true perspective, as it is based upon a critical and impartial survey of all the available data. The work not only surveys the position of Hindu women during the last four thousand years but also indicates the general lines on which the present-day problems confronting them should be solved. The treatment is quite impartial; the limitations of the Hindu Civilization have not been passed over nor its excellences exaggerated, nor vice versa. The subject has never been treated with such realism, accuracy, impartiality and comprehensiveness. The general reader will find the book absorbingly interesting. The scholar will find it original and illuminating. The student of sociology will find it stimulating and indispensable.