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This volume documents the focus on the Indian widow, regarded as the dark half of womankind in tradition, the structural counterpart of the sumangali or the auspicious married woman, and to provide an archive on widowhood. The archive comprises prescriptions, injuctions, laws and other accounts dating back to the 5th century BC from Sanskrit texts as well as extracts from official documents, pamphlets and essays in many languages, published in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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- PublisherKali for Women
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 8186706399
- ISBN 13 9788186706398
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages489
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Shadow lives: Writings on widowhood
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