Property Rights of Hindu Women: A Feminist Review of Succession Laws of Ancient, Medieval, and Modern India
Hindu women's legal right to inherit property has been restricted from the earliest times in Indian culture. In the ancient text Manusmriti, Manu writes: "Her father protects her in childhood, her husband protects her in youth and her sons protect her in old age; a woman is never fit for i...
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2008
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Journal of law and religion
Year: 2008, Volume: 24, Issue: 2, Pages: 663-687 |
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