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Author : Īśvaracandra Bidyāsāgara
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Marriage of Hindu Widows written by Īśvaracandra Bidyāsāgara and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ishvarchandra Vidyasagar
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231526601
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Hindu Widow Marriage written by Ishvarchandra Vidyasagar and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-22 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the passage of the Hindu Widow's Re-marriage Act of 1856, Hindu tradition required a woman to live as a virtual outcast after her husband's death. Widows were expected to shave their heads, discard their jewelry, live in seclusion, and undergo regular acts of penance. Ishvarchandra Vidyasagar was the first Indian intellectual to successfully argue against these strictures. A Sanskrit scholar and passionate social reformer, Vidyasagar was a leading proponent of widow marriage in colonial India, urging his contemporaries to reject a ban that caused countless women to suffer needlessly. Vidyasagar's brilliant strategy paired a rereading of Hindu scripture with an emotional plea on behalf of the widow, resulting in an organic reimagining of Hindu law and custom. Vidyasagar made his case through the two-part publication Hindu Widow Marriage, a tour de force of logic, erudition, and humanitarian rhetoric. In this new translation, Brian A. Hatcher makes available in English for the first time the entire text of one of the most important nineteenth-century treatises on Indian social reform. An expert on Vidyasagar, Hinduism, and colonial Bengal, Hatcher enhances the original treatise with a substantial introduction describing Vidyasagar's multifaceted career, as well as the history of colonial debates on widow marriage. He innovatively interprets the significance of Hindu Widow Marriage within modern Indian intellectual history by situating the text in relation to indigenous commentarial practices. Finally, Hatcher increases the accessibility of the text by providing an overview of basic Hindu categories for first-time readers, a glossary of technical vocabulary, and an extensive bibliography.
Author : David J. Brick
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197664547
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (976 download)
Download or read book Widows Under Hindu Law written by David J. Brick and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During British colonial rule in India, the treatment of high-caste Hindu widows became the subject of great controversy. Such women were not permitted to remarry and were offered two options: a life of seclusion and rigorous asceticism or death on the funeral pyre of a deceased husband. Was this a modern development, or did it date from the classical period? 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. 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. Each of the book's chapters examine these issues in depth, concluding with an appendix that addresses a widow's right to adopt a son-a fifth widow-related issue that became the topic of discussion in late Dharmasastra works and was a significant point of legal contentions during the colonial period. When read critically and historically, works of Dharmasastra provide a long and detailed record of the prevailing legal and social norms of high-caste Hindu society. Widows Under Hindu Law uses lengthy English translations of important passages from Hindu legal texts to present a largescale narrative of the treatment of widows under the Hindu legal tradition. This is an open access title. It is available to read and download as a free PDF version on the Oxford Academic platform. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International licence.
Author : Mahadev Govind Ranade (Rao Bahadur)
Publisher :
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Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)
Download or read book The Texts of Hindu Law on the Lawfulness of the Remarriage of Widows written by Mahadev Govind Ranade (Rao Bahadur) and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ramabai Sarasvati
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The High-caste Hindu Woman written by Ramabai Sarasvati and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : P. Grimshaw
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0333977645
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (339 download)
Download or read book Women's Rights and Human Rights written by P. Grimshaw and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-03-20 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This international collection of historical work explores the breadth and creativity of women's struggles for human rights, citizenship and social justice across the world. It brings together twenty contributions by scholars in women's history, whose work reflects the global reach of the International Federation for Research in Women's History. In addition to presenting studies by well known scholars in the United States and Europe, the book is distinctive in also bringing the work of scholars from regions such as South and East Asia and the Pacific to the attention of an international audience.
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Total Pages : 1080 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book A Digest of Indian Law Cases written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1080 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Martha Alter Chen
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Perpetual Mourning written by Martha Alter Chen and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basing Her Book On Rich Empirical Date And In-Depth Interviews With More Than 550 Widows From 14 Villages In Seven States, The Author Analyses The Social And Economic Challenges Widows Pose To The Social Order.
Author : Mytheli Sreenivas
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253351189
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (533 download)
Download or read book Wives, Widows, and Concubines written by Mytheli Sreenivas and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Debates about family, property, and nation in Tamil India
Author : Ishita Pande
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108489745
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Sex, Law and the Politics of Age written by Ishita Pande and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative study of the establishment of 'age' as a political category in late colonial India.
Author : Eleanor Newbigin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107434750
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Hindu Family and the Emergence of Modern India written by Eleanor Newbigin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-09-19 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1955 and 1956 the Government of India passed four Hindu Law Acts to reform and codify Hindu family law. Scholars have understood these acts as a response to growing concern about women's rights but, in a powerful re-reading of their history, this book traces the origins of the Hindu law reform project to changes in the political-economy of late colonial rule. The Hindu Family and the Emergence of Modern India considers how questions regarding family structure, property rights and gender relations contributed to the development of representative politics, and how, in solving these questions, India's secular and state power structures were consequently drawn into a complex and unique relationship with Hindu law. In this comprehensive and illuminating resource for scholars and students, Newbigin demonstrates the significance of gender and economy to the history of twentieth-century democratic government, as it emerged in India and beyond.
Author : Behramji Merwanji Malabari
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book Infant Marriage and Enforced Widowhood in India written by Behramji Merwanji Malabari and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stanley Webb-Johnson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1084 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book A Digest of Indian Law Cases written by Stanley Webb-Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1084 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Vere Woodman
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Total Pages : 668 pages
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Download or read book Digest of Indian Law Cases written by Joseph Vere Woodman and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dr. Rakesh Ainapur
Publisher : OrangeBooks Publication
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Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Hindu Law written by Dr. Rakesh Ainapur and published by OrangeBooks Publication. This book was released on 2024-05-01 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hindu law book is organized in alignment with the curriculum of various Indian Law universities. It covers a wide range of subjects, including the origins of Hindu laws, Hindu Undivided Family, Hindu Marriages, Succession and maintenance, adoption, guardianship, and incorporates important questions from past examinations of KSLU university.
Author : Sujata Massey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781761065279
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (652 download)
Download or read book A Murder at Malabar Hill written by Sujata Massey and published by . This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A legally-minded sleuth takes to the streets of 1920s Bombay in a fascinating new mystery.
Author : Margaret Owen
Publisher : Zed Books
ISBN 13 : 9781856494205
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (942 download)
Download or read book A World of Widows written by Margaret Owen and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 1996-09 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A World of Widows provides a global overview of the status for widowhood. Neglected by social policy researches, international human rights activists and the women's movement, the status of the world's widows - legal, social, cultural, and economic - is an urgent issue given the extent and the severity of the discrimination against them. Margaret Own explores the process of becoming a widow; poverty and social security in the context of widowhood; differing laws and customs regarding widow's inheritance; the situation of widows who remarry and issues of sexuality and health. She also looks at the needs of specific groups of widows - refugees, older widows, child widows - and widowhood in the context of AIDS. Throughout, she shows the prevalence of discrimination against widows in inheritance rights, land ownership, custody of children, security of home and shelter, nutrition and health. The book concludes with a summary of widowhood as a human rights issues and an overview of widows themselves organising for change.
