There are 42 million widows in India, comprising about 18 percent of total widowed population in the world and about 8 percent of the total female population of the country. There is a good deal of evidences of the deprived conditions of widows in India. There are certain disadvantages and insecurity experienced by the widows in India such as strong patrilineal family structure, norms of patrilineal residence, limited freedom of remarriage, gender division of ...
