"This volume documents the focus on the widow, regarded as the dark half of womankind in tradition, the structural counterpart of the sumangali or the auspicious married woman, and to provide an archive on widowhood. The archive comprises prescriptions, injunctions, laws and other accounts dating back to the 5 century BC from Sanskrit texts as well as extracts from official documents, pamphlets and essays in many languages, published in the 19 and 20 ...
