Free Download David Brick, "Widows Under Hindu Law " English | ISBN: 0197664547 | 2023 | 328 pages | PDF | 3 MB 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,
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