Keeping women under subjection: Laws and norms in Mughal India

Keeping women under subjection: Laws and norms in Mughal India

Domestic (and public) violence against women has a long history in India. The present article offers evidence of the perpetration of such violence in medieval times including the norms by which this was justified or partly constrained. The argument is that both Muslim and Hindu laws, as elaborated a...

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