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Gender Relations In Early India
by Vinita Chandra
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The present book is a modest attempt at shredding off few existing myths: (a) that the women in early India were a homogenous category; (b) that the dharmaúastras are the “foundational documents of ‘Hindu’ way of life, responsible for tightening the noose around the lives of women in India”; (c) that the dharmaúastras are the “representative texts of Indian tradition seeking to protect Indian women under specific historical circumstances”; and (d) that the dharmaúastras are the most important sources for the study of gender relations in early India.
It rather argues that: (a) Gender relations were shaped and manifested differently across different regions and cultures in early India. (b) The entire dharmashastric discourse is aimed at the preservation and perpetuation of “Brahmanical patriarchy”, where maintenance of gender hierarchy was actually a corollary to the maintenance of varòa hierarchy. The book explores important linkages between varòa and gender in this context. (c) The dharmaúastras may neither be considered as “foundational documents” nor can they be considered as “representative texts” of Indian tradition. The dharmaúastras were only one of the many genres of literature produced in ‘ancient’ India. Though the texts presented the ‘ideal’, the ‘real’ was not always in consonance with it.
Providing informed and balanced analysis of extensive primary and secondary source material, the book will be a resource for anyone interested in studying women’s lives in India.
ISBN - 8131603792
Pages : 344
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