Author: Dwarka Nath MitterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women (Hindu law)
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
The Position of Women in Hindu Law
Author: Dwarka Nath MitterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Women (Hindu law)
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
The Position of Women in Hindu Law
Author: Dwarka Nath MitterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hindu law
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
The Position of Women in the Yājñavalkyasmr̥ti
Author: ManjushreeShe Comes to Take Her Rights
Author: Srimati BasuPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 0791495922
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
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.
Hindu Women's Property Rights in Rural India
Author: Reena PatelPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351156381
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
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.
Hindu Women's Right to Property in India
Author: Kulwant GillPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Study covers Vedic period to modern times.
Position of Women in Hindu Law
Author: Women in the Hindu Tradition
Author: Mandakranta BosePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135192588
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 237
Book Description
This book accounts for the origin and evolution of the nature and roles of women within the Hindu belief system. It explains how the idea of the goddess has been derived from Hindu philosophical ideas and texts of codes of conduct and how particular models of conduct for mortal women have been created. Hindu religious culture correlates philosophical speculation and social imperatives to situate femininity on a continuum from divine to mortal existence. This creates in the Hindu consciousness multiple - often contradictory - images of women, both as wielders and subjects of authority. The conception and evolution of the major Hindu goddesses, placed against the judgments passed by texts of Hindu sacred law on women’s nature and duties, illuminate the Hindu discourse on gender, the complexity of which is compounded by the distinctive spirituality of female ascetic poets. Drawing on a wide range of Sanskrit texts, the author explains how the idea of the goddess has been derived from Hindu philosophical ideas and also from the social roles of women as reflected in, and prescribed by, texts of codes of conduct. She examines the idea of female divinity which gave rise to models of conduct for mortal women. Instead of a one-way order of ideological derivation, the author argues that there is constant traffic between both ways the notional and the actual feminine. This book brings together for the first time a wide range of material and offers fresh stimulating interpretations of women in the Hindu Tradition.
The Position of Women in Hindu Law (Thesis Approved for the Degree of Doctor of Law in the University of Calcutta).
Author: Women and the Law
Author: Anjani KantPublisher: APH Publishing
ISBN: 9788176484565
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
This Book Analyses Every Aspect Of Indian Women In Different Spheres Of Life From Vedic Period To Contemporary Society.