Gender Relations in Early India
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
8131603792
Length
xii+331p., 22cm.
Subjects
The present book is a modest attempt at shredding off few existing myths: (a) that the women in early India were a homogenous category; (b) that the dharmaúâstras are the “foundational documents of ‘Hindu’ way of life, responsible for tightening the noose around the lives of women in India”; (c) that the dharmaúâstras are the “representative texts of Indian tradition seeking to protect Indian women under ...
