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The Predicament of Women in Ancient India
Posted: 10.05.2008
Table of Content
[01]
Introduction
[02]
The Deterioration of the Position of Women
[03]
Eight Forms of Marriage and Other Chains
[04]
The Son and the Beyond
[05]
Early Marriage of Girls
[06] Avoiding Lack of Sons
[00] Avoiding Lack of Sons
[01] Obtaining Sons through Magic
[02] Putrika As A Substitute For A Son
[03] Adoption
[07] Marriage
[01] Dowry and Bride-Price
[02] Marriage and Married Life
[08] Daily Life (of Wives and Women)
[01] Housework
[02] Wife and husband, wife and parents-in-law
[03] Wife and Ritual
[04] Menstruation, impurity of women in general
[05] Pardah
[06] Greatness of the son, greatness of the mother
[07] Perpetual tutelage
[08] The daughter
[09] Miscellany
[09] Specific Events in the Life of Women
[01] Widowhood and Niyoga
[02] Monogamy, Supersession, and Polygamy
[03] Adultery
[04] Sins of Men and Sins of Women
[05] Remarriage of Women
[06] The Widow's Right of Inheritance
[07] Feticide and Female Infanticide
[10] Varia
[11] Devadasis
[12] Prostitution in General
[11] The Woman in the Epics
[01] General
[02] Mahabharata: Story of Savitri
[03] Ramayana: Sita Twice Repudiated
[12] Widowhood and Suttee
[00] Widowhood and Suttee
[01] Suttee as recorded up to about 300 A.D.
[02] Suttee after 300 A.D.
[03] Widowhood after 100 B.C.
[04] Suttee, Mainly 18th and 19th Centuries
[05] Widowhood Past and Present
[06] Two Attitudes
[07] Debates on Suttee
[08] Theories on Suttee
[13] Woman in Hinduism (Varia)
[01] Introduction
[02] The Female in Hindu Iconography
[03] Hindu Mythology
[04] Tantrism and Shaktism
[05] Nuns and Saint Singers in Hinduism
[14]
Widow Burning in Bali
[15]
Glossary
[16]
General Bibliography
[17]
Specialized Bibliography
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