Title: Hindu women's property rights in rural India
Description: "This volume addresses the issue of Hindu peasant women's ability to effectuate the statutory rights to succession and assert ownership of their share in family land. The work combines a critical evaluation of law with economic analyses into allocation of resources within the family as a means of addressing gender relations and explaining resulting gender inequalities."--BOOK JACKET.
Subjects: Inheritance and succession (Hindu law), Legal status, laws, Legal status, laws, etc. (Hindu law), Property (Hindu law), Right of property, Women, Women peasants, Women (Hindu law), Droit de propriété, Propriété (Droit hindou), Successions et héritages (Droit hindou)
Places: India