[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Polity, law and society](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity) › [The Position of Women in Hindu Civilisation, from Prehistoric Times to the Present Day](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.altekar-1938) › c19.s1.87 # The Position of Women in Hindu Civilisation, from Prehistoric Times to the Present Day c19.s1.87 The Position of Women in Hindu Civilisation, from Prehistoric Times to the Present Day c19.s1.87 - **Language:** English ### [c19.s1.87](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.altekar-1938.c19.s1.87) \*Paiśācha\* marriage, 42-3. \*Paridhānam\*, 334-5. \*Pārināhaya\*, 260. Parks, 208. Partition and mother, 119, 328-30; and grandmother, 328; and wife, 327-8. Pauranic religion and women, 244-5, 434. Philosophy and women, 14-5, 246-51. Physical punishment for the wife, 111; in the west, 111-2. Poetesses, 12, 19-21, 408. Polyandry, 132-4. Polygamy, 103, 122-6, 423, 438, 441-442, 467. Post-puberty marriages, 58-64, curses on, 67, in recent years, 74-5, dangers of, 75-6, among Kshatriyas, 21, 69, 430. \*Prājāpatya\* marriage, 54-5. Preachers, women as, 212, in Christianity, 247. Privy Council, 270, 322. Progeny, as aim of marriage, 118. Promiscuity, 34-5. Proprietary rights of women, in early times elsewhere, 252-3; in India, 253, why recognised, 426-7; improvements suggested in, 285, 293-7, 330-4, 397-8, 426-7, 440-5; see also under Inheritance, Daughter, Wife and Widow. Public life and women, careers open to, 212-7; part in administration of, 217-25; recent developments, 225-8, 446. Purda system, not known upto c. 100 B. C., 197-8, 408; in pre-Muslim period, 200-5; within family, 206; becomes general in Muslim period, 206-8; in Europe, 209-11; see also 423, 434-5. \*Putrikā\*, 281-2. - [Previous: c19.s1.86](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.altekar-1938.c19.s1.86) - [Next: c19.s1.88](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.altekar-1938.c19.s1.88) - [Up: c19.s1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.altekar-1938.c19.s1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.altekar-1938.c19.s1.87](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.altekar-1938.c19.s1.87) · Pramāṇa