The Position of Women in Hindu Civilisation, from Prehistoric Times to the Present Day c14.s2.23

c14.s2.23

There were several thinkers who recognised this state of affairs as unsatisfactory, but had not the necessary courage to recommend that the widow should be recognised as a full heir. They proposed half way measures. Some of them recommended that the wife should be allowed to inherit property worth about 2,000 or 3,000, in addition to any Strīdhana that may have been given to her by her husband¹. Others thought that she should be permitted to inherit the moveables only². A third view was that the widow may be a deferred hair; she shonld be allowed to inherit on the failure of brothers-in-law, if her parents-in-law had no objction to the property devolving on her³.