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- Essay · Women in Dharma · Smṛti & epic/Smṛti & Itihāsa/free
Reverence and Restriction — women across the Smṛti and epic age
The Manusmṛti calls women worthy of worship in one verse and unfit for independence in another. Draupadī and Sītā, in the ep …
- Essay · Reverence and Restriction — women across the Smṛti and epic age/Smṛti & Itihāsa/free
Reverence and restriction, in the same text
… owhere is the resulting contradiction sharper than in the **Manusmṛti**, the Laws of Manu: a text that can sound, within the space of a few verses, both reverent and severely restr …
- Essay · Women in Dharma · Reform/Sikh & Reform/free
Back to the Vedas — Sikh and Ārya Samāj reform for women
Facing centuries of hardened patriarchy, Sikhism abolished satī and the veil as doctrine, not preference — and the Ārya Samāj went "back to the Vedas" to make the same case for wom…
- Essay · Back to the Vedas — Sikh and Ārya Samāj reform for women/Sikh & Reform/free
Ārya Samāj — reclaiming the Vedic woman
… sidered corrupted by interpolation, the same reasoning [the Manusmṛti piece in this series](/essays/manusmriti-women-contradictions) describes being applied to that text's harsher …
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