Hindu Widow Re-marriage & Other Tracts
Author : Mahatma Gandhi
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Page : pages
File Size : 48,55 MB
Release : 1920
Category : India
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Author : Mahatma Gandhi
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Page : pages
File Size : 48,55 MB
Release : 1920
Category : India
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Author : Mahatma Gandhi
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 27,60 MB
Release : 2012-08-01
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ISBN : 9781290890465
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Author : Mahatma Gandhi
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 12,62 MB
Release : 2017-12-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780484036658
Excerpt from Hindu Widow Re-Marriage Other Tracts Early marriage of girls would be greatly checked by the free introduction of widow re-marriage. As the state of the Hindu society now exists virgins are available both for bachelors and widow ers. The latter naturally and generally desire to unite themselves with grown up girls. Few parents like to give the hands of their girls to widowers. They, therefore, naturally desire to secure bachelor matches as early as possible to obviate the emergency of having re course to widower matches; and thus the early marriage is encouraged. It would also be a very salutary and equit able rule of practice if widowers were never to marry a maiden but always a widow. It will, perhaps, be better to notice here that some of the opponents(5 11 7, of the widow marriage may object that widowers should not 'marry at all. I must answer'at once to this objection that in this world it is impossible for widowers generally not to re marry. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Mohandas Gandhi
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 44,64 MB
Release : 2016-05-02
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ISBN : 9781355231615
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Author : Government of India Ministry of Law
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Page : 3 pages
File Size : 13,55 MB
Release : 1969
Category : Marriage law
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Author : Law Commission of India
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Page : 20 pages
File Size : 47,84 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Marriage law
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Author : Ishvarchandra Vidyasagar
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 19,90 MB
Release : 2011-11-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0231526601
Before the passage of the Hindu Widow's Re-marriage Act of 1856, Hindu tradition required a woman to live as a virtual outcast after her husband's death. Widows were expected to shave their heads, discard their jewelry, live in seclusion, and undergo regular acts of penance. Ishvarchandra Vidyasagar was the first Indian intellectual to successfully argue against these strictures. A Sanskrit scholar and passionate social reformer, Vidyasagar was a leading proponent of widow marriage in colonial India, urging his contemporaries to reject a ban that caused countless women to suffer needlessly. Vidyasagar's brilliant strategy paired a rereading of Hindu scripture with an emotional plea on behalf of the widow, resulting in an organic reimagining of Hindu law and custom. Vidyasagar made his case through the two-part publication Hindu Widow Marriage, a tour de force of logic, erudition, and humanitarian rhetoric. In this new translation, Brian A. Hatcher makes available in English for the first time the entire text of one of the most important nineteenth-century treatises on Indian social reform. An expert on Vidyasagar, Hinduism, and colonial Bengal, Hatcher enhances the original treatise with a substantial introduction describing Vidyasagar's multifaceted career, as well as the history of colonial debates on widow marriage. He innovatively interprets the significance of Hindu Widow Marriage within modern Indian intellectual history by situating the text in relation to indigenous commentarial practices. Finally, Hatcher increases the accessibility of the text by providing an overview of basic Hindu categories for first-time readers, a glossary of technical vocabulary, and an extensive bibliography.
Author : India
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Page : 5 pages
File Size : 48,9 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Marriage
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Author : India. Census Commissioner
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Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,31 MB
Release : 1902
Category : India
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Author : India. Census Commissioner
Publisher :
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 34,71 MB
Release : 1902
Category : India
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