SEMINAR PAPER ON LAWS

RELATING TO WOMEN AND

CHILD
Indian Womans Right To
Property- Evolution Under Hindu
And Muslim Laws(Rough Draft)

SUBMITTED BY
ROLL NO 708
SUBMITTED TO MR. VIJAYANT SINHA
FACULTY FOR:
LAWS RELATING TO WOMEN AND CHILD
X SEMESTER
CHANAKYA NATIONAL LAW UNIVERSITY, PATNA
 TABLE OF CONTENTS

RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
HYPOTHESIS
INTRODUCTION
EVOLUTION OF THE WOMENS RIGHT TO PROPERTY
CRITICAL ANALYSATION OF RIGHT TO PROPERTY OF WOMEN IN MUSLIM
LAW
CURRENT STATUS THE PRESENT POSITION OF PROPERTY RIGHTS OF
INDIAN WOMEN
CONCLUSION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
 INTRODUCTION
Patriarchy and male dominancy deprives women from property and inheritance
rights:

The proposed hypothesis for the current study reflects a general overview of the cultural
hurdles that are supposed to be primarily the influential figures in womens lack of
empowerment with respect to share in property and inheritance. The foremost cultural
impediment in the hypothesis is marked as patriarchy and male dominancy that has been
found prevalent in accordance to analysis of data pertaining to the research community.
The social structure of the area reflects the centuries old customs and traditions that are
also represented as the hindering values in obtaining share in property and inheritance in
the locality. Variable like male dominancy, centuries old traditions and misinterpretation
of the religion have also being taken into consideration for analysis.

The reluctance of women to assert their own rights:

It is noted through cultural examples that women in India fear societal isolation and
condemnation on asserting their own property rights in their fathers property. The fear of
being condemned by the society for having exercised their right to property in the
property of their father as equal to their brothers often prevents the women in our society
from practically doing so. A woman is assertively said to have lawfully established rights
in the property of her husband after his death, which is hardly seen to be questioned. But
if that woman comes forward to claim her legitimate and lawful right in her fathers
property it is looked down upon by the Indian society which only reflects the first
hypothesis of this paper that is the patriarchal thinking of Indian society. It has succeeded
to seep through our mentalities so well that even women who may believe that they do
have a legitimate right in their ancestral property fail to actually do so in practice because
of this thinking having been imbibed into their minds as well. It is not only considered to
be a greedy move but infact widely disapproved as per our customs.