The Position of Women in Hindu Civilisation, from Prehistoric Times to the Present Day c5.10
The Position of Women in Hindu Civilisation, from Prehistoric Times to the Present Day c5.10
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c5.10
Treatment of the bride, 106-9; wife's status in relation to the husband, 109-12; marital ideal placed before the couple, 113-8; apotheosis of the mother, 118-20; husbands slacker in following the ideal, 121-2; polygamy, supersession and consequent misery, 122-9; free permission to remarry to man alone, 130-2; polyandry, 132-4.