Book Chapter

Women in the Śāstric Tradition: Colonialism, Law, and Violence

Bhattacharyya‐Panda, Nandini

2011

Overview

This chapter contains sections titled: Definition of Key Terms Women in the Early Colonial Agenda Women's Rights to Property and the Early Colonial Rulers in Eighteenth ‐ Century Bengal The Appropriation of Manusmrti The Tradition of Sati in Bengal and Colonial Discourses Colonial Codes, Women's Property, and the Issues of Sati Concluding Statements References

• Publisher: Wiley‐Blackwell
• Subject: appropriation of Manusmrti ‐ popular text among administrators and orientalist scholars / colonial codes, women's property ‐ issues of Sati, codification and compilation of second code / colonial policies of violence against women ‐ indigenous tradition of the śāstras in India / early British rulers, devising legal codification ‐ prime mechanism to internalize ideology / Manu, first among compilers of oral prescriptions ‐ founding principles of good conduct / millennia‐old tradition of Dharma śāstras ‐ shrouded in uncertainty and myth / significance of early codes on Hindu law ‐ intellectual‐legal history in India, acknowledged facts / women in the early colonial agenda ‐ British imperialism, patriarchy in India and women's issues / women in the śāstric tradition ‐ colonialism, law and violence / śāstras or Dharma śāstras ‐ not representing a static tradition
• ISBN: 9781405191319, 1405191317