The Political Institutions and Theories of the Hindus: A Study in Comparative Politics c9.s1.14

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c9.s1.14

"Nowhere", then, as Gooroodas Banerjee¹ remarks, "were the proprietary rights of women recognized so early as in India; and in very few ancient systems of law have these rights been so largely conceded as in our own. In certain cases *** a woman's dominion over her *strîdhana* is absolute".

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