Author: Basu, Srimati
Title: She Comes to Take Her Rights: Indian Women, Property, and Propriety
Description: Albany [NY], State University of New York, 1999. orig.wrappers. 24x14cm, xiv,305 pp. PAPERBACK.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Investigates why poor and middle-class women in India have taken so little advantage of a 1956 law that allows women to inherit property from their parents. Finds the informed and considered decision not to inherit to be part of an intricate negotiation of kinship and an optimization of socioeconomic and emotional needs. Looks at recent legal cases" - Publisher description.

Keywords: Indian Legal History, Law, Hindu Jurisprudence, Social Sociology, Women, Inheritance, Property, India South Asia,