Widows Under Hindu Law
dc.contributor.author | Brick, David | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2024-07-22T08:56:33Z | |
dc.date.available | 2024-07-22T08:56:33Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/92407 | |
dc.description.abstract | This book comprises the first exhaustive history of the treatment and status of widows under classical Hindu law or Dharmaśāstra, as it is called in Sanskrit. As such, this book is intended both to contribute to our understanding of how elite male attitudes toward women evolved during precolonial periods in South Asia and to provide crucial context for important colonial debates on Hindu widow remarriage and the Hindu custom of widow self-immolation, or sati. The Dharmaśāstra tradition spans over two millennia of South Asian history, from approximately the third century BCE to the eighteenth century CE. 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. Thus, this book is arranged into four chapters, one devoted to each of these four topics. In addition, it contains a summary, where an attempt is made to synthesize the major conclusions drawn in the book’s four main chapters, and an appendix, which addresses a widow’s right to adopt a son—a fifth widow-related issue that became the topic of some discussion in late Dharmaśāstra works and was a significant point of legal contention during the colonial period. | en_US |
dc.language | English | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Rocher Indology | en_US |
dc.subject.classification | thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRD Hinduism | en_US |
dc.subject.classification | thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRD Hinduism::QRDF Hinduism: sacred texts and revered writings | en_US |
dc.subject.classification | thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRV Aspects of religion::QRVP Religious life and practice::QRVP7 Religious aspects of sexuality, gender and relationships | en_US |
dc.subject.other | law, religion, Hinduism, Sanskrit, women, widows, inheritance, marriage, suicide | en_US |
dc.title | Widows Under Hindu Law | en_US |
dc.type | book | |
oapen.identifier.doi | doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197664544.001.0001 | en_US |
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy | b9501915-cdee-4f2a-8030-9c0b187854b2 | en_US |
oapen.relation.isbn | 9780197664551 | en_US |
oapen.relation.isbn | 9780197664568 | en_US |
oapen.relation.isbn | 9780197664575 | en_US |
oapen.pages | 329 | en_US |
oapen.place.publication | New York | en_US |
oapen.remark.public | Funder name: Rocher Foundation |