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Hindu women's property rights in rural India : law, labour and culture in action / Reena Patel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Patel, Reena.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women (Hindu law).
- Women peasants--Legal status, laws, etc--India.
- Women peasants.
- Right of property--India.
- Right of property.
- Property (Hindu law).
- Inheritance and succession (Hindu law).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (158 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This volume addresses the issue of Hindu peasant women's ability to effectuate the statutory rights to succession and assert ownership of their share in family land. The work combines a critical evaluation of law with economic analyses into allocation of resources within the family as a means of addressing gender relations and explaining resulting gender inequalities.
- Contents:
- A conceptual map
- The development of females' proprietary rights in Hindu law
- Conversations : what women think
- An evaluation of women's self-interest in the Hindu law of succession
- Women, work and land rights.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [125]-139) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-351-15638-1
- 1-281-09889-2
- 9786611098896
- 0-7546-8493-8
- OCLC:
- 437113667
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