 | Missions - 1823 - 610 pages
...regardless of existence atter the death of their husbands : and this indifference, accompanied with hope of future reward held out to them, leads them...restraint on the indulgence of their inclinations in reapect to the number which they marry: Mime of them, especially Brahmins of higher birth, marry ten,... | |
 | Christianity - 1826 - 630 pages
...value without the consent of her son or daughter-in-law, who were all subject to her authority hut the day before. Cruel sons often wound the feelings...of their inclinations in respect to the number they many. Some of them, especially Brahmins of higher birth, marry ten, twenty, or thirty women,* either... | |
 | Lant Carpenter - Hinduism - 1833 - 152 pages
...they are daily subjected, that they become in a great measure regardless of existence after the 94 death of their husbands : and this indifference, accompanied...source of the greatest misery in native families". He then speaks of " Brahmuns of higher birth" as marrying " ten, twenty, or thirty women"; and manifests... | |
 | Mary Carpenter - Brahma-samaj - 1875 - 206 pages
...afterwards took place in the law of inheritance. In the course of this statement he says (pp. 274, 275), ' It is not from religious prejudices and early impressions...source of the greatest misery in native families." " His labours for his country," continues Dr. CAHo PENTER, " had, however, a mueh wider scope. He took... | |
 | Rammohun Roy (Raja) - Brahma-samaj - 1906 - 1042 pages
...to them, leads them to the horrible act of suicide. These restraints on female inheritance encourge, in a great degree, polygamy, a frequent source of...greatest misery in native families; a grand object of Hindus being to secure a provision for their male offspring, the law, which relieves them from the... | |
 | Rammohun Roy (Raja) - Brahma-samaj - 1906 - 1024 pages
...to them, leads them to the horrible act of suicide. These restraints on female inheritance encourge, in a great degree, polygamy, a frequent source of...greatest misery in native families; a grand object of Hindus being to secure a provision for their male offspring, the law, which relieves them from the... | |
 | Timothy Mitchell - Social Science - 1994 - 510 pages
...in general by their step-sons, and sometimes dreadfully treated by their sistersin-law. . . . [The] restraints on female inheritance encourage, in a great...a frequent source of the greatest misery in native families.4 There are two interesting features of this document that make it the work of a modern documentor... | |
 | Timothy Mitchell - Social Science - 1994 - 510 pages
...in general by their step-sons, and sometimes dreadfully treated by their sistersin-law. . . . [The] restraints on female inheritance encourage, in a great...source of the greatest misery in native families. 4 There are two interesting features of this document that make it the work of a modern documenter... | |
 | Dipesh Chakrabarty - History - 2000 - 324 pages
...in general by their step-sons, and sometimes dreadfully treated by their sisters-in-law. . . . [The] restraints on female inheritance encourage, in a great...a frequent source of the greatest misery in native families.4 There are two interesting features of this document that make it the work of a modern observer... | |
 | Timothy Mitchell - Social Science - 2000 - 276 pages
...in general by their step-sons, and sometimes dreadfully treated by their sistersin-law. . . . [The] restraints on female inheritance encourage, in a great...a frequent source of the greatest misery in native families.4 There are two interesting features of this document that make it the work of a modern documenter... | |
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... existence after the death of their husbands ; and this indifference, accompanied with the hope of future reward held out to them, leads them to the horrible act of suicide. These restraints on female inheritance encourage, in a great degree, polygamy,... 