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dc.contributor.authorBrick, David
dc.date.accessioned2024-07-22T08:56:33Z
dc.date.available2024-07-22T08:56:33Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/92407
dc.description.abstractThis 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.languageEnglishen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesRocher Indologyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRD Hinduismen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRD Hinduism::QRDF Hinduism: sacred texts and revered writingsen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema 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 relationshipsen_US
dc.subject.otherlaw, religion, Hinduism, Sanskrit, women, widows, inheritance, marriage, suicideen_US
dc.titleWidows Under Hindu Lawen_US
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doidoi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197664544.001.0001en_US
oapen.relation.isPublishedByb9501915-cdee-4f2a-8030-9c0b187854b2en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9780197664551en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9780197664568en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9780197664575en_US
oapen.pages329en_US
oapen.place.publicationNew Yorken_US
oapen.remark.publicFunder name: Rocher Foundation


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