Dr. Bhin Sain Narang
Description
Language: English
Pages: 336
About The Book
In a society where patria-patestas still prevails, women have travelled a long but thorny way from being
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an object of moveable property to, to be the owner of property. Since women, through their scholastic, occupational and managerial credentials made their realisation felt in the Vedic era itself, the society began extending right of their ownership on certain gifts presented to the married girls on various occasions related to the marriage, which later on came to be recognised as Stridhana. Vijrianegvara, on the basis of the texts of Yajtiavalkyasmrti expanded the scope Stridhana and Jimatavahana expressly declared women's absolute ownership as an essential clause of the women's peculiar property. These two propounders of the Benaras and Bengal school respectively were supported by many commentators with marketable deviations which gave rise to the various schools in Hindu law.
With the passage of time, a good number of laws were passed to strengthen the economic position of women but the Hindu Succession Act, 1956 needs a special mention. Under the provisions of this Act, a daughter is an equal sharer of her parental property and is an absolute owner of stridhana.
What constitutes stridhana and how it devolves on her successors is the theme of this work. How can she execute her control over her stridhana? Why should man as husband not willingly return her dowry after disharmonious marital relations? Why should brother not allow her share in parental property without dissolution of relation? Some of these more relevant questions have been widely discussed in the present book.
Foreword
This painstaking work deals with the rights of women, enshrined in the juristic and jurisprudential discourse of the classical Hindu Law
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