The Predicament of Women in Ancient India

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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