Widows Under Hindu Law
Sorozatcím:
Rocher Indology;
Kiadó: OUP USA
Megjelenés dátuma: 2023. június 2.
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| ISBN13: | 9780197664544 |
| ISBN10: | 0197664547 |
| Kötéstípus: | Keménykötés |
| Terjedelem: | 328 oldal |
| Méret: | 243x160x23 mm |
| Súly: | 578 g |
| Nyelv: | angol |
| 617 |
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Rövid leírás:
This book comprises the first exhaustive history of the treatment and status of widows under classical Hindu law, a complex and highly influential tradition of jurisprudence spanning over two millennia of Indian history (300 BCE-1800 CE). As such, this book both contributes to our understanding of how male attitudes toward women evolved in pre-modern India and provides crucial context for important colonial debates on Hindu widow remarriage and the Hindu custom of widow self-immolation or sati.
Hosszú leírás:
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.
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.
Tartalomjegyzék:
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1: Widow Remarriage and Niyoga
Chapter 2: Widows' Rights of Inheritance
Chapter 3: Widow-Asceticism
Chapter 4: Sati
Summary
Appendix: A Widow's Right to Adopt
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1: Widow Remarriage and Niyoga
Chapter 2: Widows' Rights of Inheritance
Chapter 3: Widow-Asceticism
Chapter 4: Sati
Summary
Appendix: A Widow's Right to Adopt
Bibliography
