Property And The Concept Of Sridhana Analysis

Property and the Concept of ‘Stridhana’
As mentioned earlier there were two schools of law namely Mitakshara school and Dayabhaga school. In both the schools women’s property rights were restricted.
Under Mitakshara law male were coparcenaries ie, the owners of land. They got this right by birth and not by succession. But the main characteristic of this property was the inalienability. A person who possessed that property cannot dispose it by sale, gift or by will. Ownership was just a notion. The entire property was managed by Kartha who is the head of the family and it was done for the entire benefit of the family. Until the property is portioned everyone just had the right for maintenance. Even after partition it remained to be a joint property.
However, women were not coparcenaries. They can live in their husband’s or father’s house and had the right to be maintained from the property
They were not having an identity of their own. They were not given on the belief that if they were given freedom they would break all the barriers in the society. They considered women as weak- minded and so believed that they need protection and discipline throughout her life time. She was considered as wicked and vulnerable to passion and infirmities. So male who was supposed to be strong controlled her. Actually the sufferings and all the hardships actually lost her confidence and she consequently become weak prone to all infirmities till today. They considered themselves as a society meant for suffering and suppressing their feelings for men. All the laws given by the law givers degraded the status of the womenfolk. They failed to ensure social justice and equality to women. They behaved like a male chauvinist. They introduced “time-tested rules” which entirely destroyed the creativity, freshness, growth and development which they had during their glorious era and those impacts are still visible even after