A Collection Containing the Proceedings which Led to the Passing of Act XV of 1856: An Act to Remove All Legal Obstacles to the Marriage of Hindu WidowsMazagaon Printing Press, 1885 - 82 pàgines |
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accordance appointment Aryan believed Bengal Bill Brahmins brother Calcutta castes ceremonies Chap child conscience constitute a valid contracting a second COUNCIL OF INDIA crime daughters deceased husband declared duty effect evil favor female Government guardian heirs Hindu law Hindu Widows Hon'ble Honorable Council Honorable Member infanticide inheritance injury to Society interference interpretation issue James Colvile Kali Yug Kulins legal obstacles LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL Legislature Mahabharat Mahomedan male relative Manu marriage of Hindu marriage of widows marry measure Memorialist minority misery objection opinion Pandit passed persons Petitioners Petitions polygamy practice present prohibition proposed law Puran question re-marriage re-marry religion religious remove all legal rites Sadar Court Samvarta Sati second marriage Section Shallya Shantaram Shastras Sir James Colvile social Sudra tion valid marriage Veda Vijia Lakshmi Vishnu widow marriage woman women Yajnavalkya आहे इंग्रजी एक करून किंमत प्रसिद्ध भाषेत मराठी या
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Pàgina 70 - Hindoos as an imperative duty; on the contrary, a life of purity and retirement on the part of the widow is more especially and preferably inculcated, and by a vast majority of that people throughout India the practice is not kept up nor observed: in some extensive districts it does not exist; in those in which it has been most frequent, it is notorious that, in many instances, acts of atrocity have been perpetrated, which have been shocking to the Hindoos themselves, and in their eyes unlawful and...
Pàgina xxvii - to provide for the Government of India" the Territories in the Possession and under the Government of the East India Company were...
Pàgina 70 - Hindus themselves, and in their eyes unlawful and wicked. The measures hitherto adopted to discourage and prevent such acts have failed of success, and the governor-general in council is deeply impressed with the conviction that the abuses in question cannot be effectually put an end to without abolishing the practice altogether. Actuated by these considerations the...
Pàgina 26 - ... many Hindus believe that this imputed legal incapacity, although it is in accordance with established custom, is not in accordance with a true interpretation of the precepts of their religion, and desire that the civil law administered by the Courts of Justice shall no longer prevent those Hindus who may be so minded from adopting a different custom, in accordance with the dictates of their own...
Pàgina 33 - emaciate her body, by living voluntarily on pure flowers, roots, and fruit; but let her not, when her lord is deceased, even pronounce the name of another man. Let her continue, till death, forgiving all injuries, performing harsh duties, avoiding every sensual pleasure, and cheerfully practising the incomparable rules of virtue, which have been followed by such women as were devoted to one only husband.
Pàgina 9 - Many never visit, nor take their wives from the house of the father-in-law, but they remain there a burden and a disgrace to their parents : or, they abandon the paternal roof at the call of some paramour. Early marriages also give rise to another dreadful evil : almost all these girls after marriage remain at home, one, two, or three years ; and during this time numbers are left widows, without having enjoyed the company of their husbands a single day : these young widows, being forbidden to marry,...
Pàgina 58 - Court having original jurisdiction in civil cases in the place where the deceased husband was domiciled at the time of his death, for the appointment of some proper person to be guardian of the said children, and thereupon it shall be lawful for the said Court, if it shall think fit, to appoint such guardian, who, when appointed, shall be entitled to have the care and custody of the said children, or of any of them, during their minority, in the place of their mother ; and in making such appointment...
Pàgina 36 - BY a girl, or by a young woman, or by a woman advanced in years, nothing must be done, even in her own dwelling place, according to her mere pleasure : 148.
Pàgina vii - Whenever there is a large amount of unredressed evil suffered by people who cannot adopt their own remedy, the State has a function to regulate and...
Pàgina ii - Shastras is held in esteem, and what is consonant to them is set at open defiance. Through thy influence, men lost to all sense of religion, and reckless in their conduct, are everywhere regarded as virtuous, and enjoy all the privileges of society, only because they adhere to mere forms : while those truly virtuous and of unblemished conduct, if they disregard those forms and disobey thy authority, are considered as the most irreligious, despised as the most depraved, and cut off from society.