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Synopsis
Prof. Dr. Klaus Bruhn, former head of department of Indian History Of Arts, Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany, well known for the development of an advanced method for classification of Jaina iconography, is author of this extraordinary book.
Table of Content
01] Introduction
02] The Deterioration of the Position of Women
03] Eight Forms of Marriage and Other Chains
04] The Son and the Beyond
05] Early Marriage of Girls
06] Avoiding Lack of Sons
06.00] Avoiding Lack of Sons
06.01] Obtaining Sons through Magic
06.02] Putrika As A Substitute For A Son
06.03] Adoption
07] Marriage
07.01] Dowry and Bride-Price
07.02] Marriage and Married Life
08] Daily Life (of Wives and Women)
08.01] Housework
08.02] Wife and husband, wife and parents-in-law
08.03] Wife and Ritual
08.04] Menstruation, impurity of women in general
08.05] Pardah
08.06] Greatness of the son, greatness of the mother
08.07] Perpetual tutelage
08.08] The daughter
08.09] Miscellany
09] Specific Events in the Life of Women
09.01] Widowhood and Niyoga
09.02] Monogamy, Supersession, and Polygamy
09.03] Adultery
09.04] Sins of Men and Sins of Women
09.05] Remarriage of Women
09.06] The Widow's Right of Inheritance
09.07] Feticide and Female Infanticide
10] Varia
10.11] Devadasis
10.12] Prostitution in General
11] The Woman in the Epics
11.01] General
11.02] Mahabharata: Story of Savitri
11.03] Ramayana: Sita Twice Repudiated
12] Widowhood and Suttee
12.00] Widowhood and Suttee
12.01] Suttee as recorded up to about 300 A.D.
12.02] Suttee after 300 A.D.
12.03] Widowhood after 100 B.C.
12.04] Suttee, Mainly 18th and 19th Centuries
12.05] Widowhood Past and Present
12.06] Two Attitudes
12.07] Debates on Suttee
12.08] Theories on Suttee
13] Woman in Hinduism (Varia)
13.01] Introduction
13.02] The Female in Hindu Iconography
13.03] Hindu Mythology
13.04] Tantrism and Shaktism
13.05] Nuns and Saint Singers in Hinduism
14] Widow Burning in Bali
15] Glossary
16] General Bibliography
17] Specialized Bibliography