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It was permitted for the widows or wives who had no child by their spouse to procreate a child with another man. [1] [2] [3] The basic purpose of niyoga is to ensure the continuation of the family lineage and to mitigate the financial and social precariousness that a childless widow would have faced in society. [4]
The Hindu Widows' Remarriage Act of 1856, [9] provided legal safeguards against loss of certain forms of inheritance for remarrying a Hindu widow, [8] though, under the Act, the widow forsook any inheritance due her from her deceased husband. [10] Especially targeted in the act were child widows whose husbands had died before consummation of ...
Hindu scholars and colonial British authorities rejected this argument, states Lucy Carroll, because the alleged custom prohibiting widow remarriage was "far from ancient", and was already in practice among the Hindu communities such as the Rajbansi whose members had petitioned for the prohibition of widow remarriage.
Dhondo Keshav Karve (18 April 1858 – 9 November 1962) (pronunciation ⓘ), popularly known as Maharshi Karve, was a social reformer in India in the field of women's welfare. He advocated widow remarriage, and he himself remarried a widow as a widower. Karve was a pioneer in promoting widows' education.
Source: [11] A regulation for declaring the practice of sati, or of burning or burying alive the widows of Hindus, illegal, and punishable by the criminal courts, passed by the governor-general in council on 4 December 1829, corresponding with the 20th Aughun 1236 Bengal era; the 23rd Aughun 1237 Fasli; the 21st Aughun 1237 Vilayati; the 8th Aughun 1886 Samavat; and the 6th Jamadi-us-Sani 1245 ...
Category: Widowhood in India. 5 languages. ... Widow remarriage; Widows of Vidarbha This page was last edited on 12 May 2022, at 02:17 (UTC). Text ...
Recasting Women: Essays in Colonial History [1] is a 1989 book, edited by Kumkum Sangari [2] and Sudesh Vaid, [3] published by Kali for Women in India and by the Rutgers University Press in the United States. The anthology attempts to explore the inter-relation of patriarchies with political economy, law, religion and culture and to suggest a ...
Amrapali was a celebrated nagarvadhu (royal courtesan) of the republic of Vaishali in ancient India. In the 6th or 5th century BCE, Queen Mṛgāvatī (in Sanskrit ), or Migāvatī (in Prakrit ) of the Vatsa mahajanapada ruled as regent while her son Udayana was either a minor or held captive by a rival king, and she earned "the admiration of ...