Women's property rights and access to justice in India : a socio-legal ethnography of widowhood and inheritance practices in Maharashtra

Bates, Karine

In India, the Hindu Succession Rights Act of 1956 allows the widow, the daughters, alongside the sons of the deceased senior male, to claim an equal share in familial property. By giving inheritance rights to daughters and widows, and not exclusively to sons, this Act proposes a radically different