The Position of Women Rights in Kautilya’s Arthasastra: A Brief Exposition
| Vol-6 | No-01 | January-2021 | Published Online: 17 January 2021 PDF ( 209 KB ) | ||
| DOI: https://doi.org/10.31305/rrijm.2021.v06.i01.046 | ||
| Author(s) | ||
| Leena Naskar 1 | ||
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1PhD Scholar, Dept. of Philosophy, Jadavpur University |
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| Abstract | ||
Various explores have been led on Arthashastra to get to the much sought after-craft of statecraft. However, this book likewise enjoys politicizing the part of women’s as he additionally concocted a few rights which a woman could accomplish on bringing forth a child. Kautilya embraced a summed up view when it came to statecraft and the approaches to improve the proficiency of administration. By the by, he reserved no option to typify women’s for powerful administration of the state. In this investigation, the portrayal of womanhood in Arthashastra will be considered which will incorporate investigating the portrayals of women’s and fundamentally questioning the idea of these depictions as for contemporary financial constructions. In the contemporary occasions additionally the women’s face concealment, which can be followed back to the molding planned by such strict and statecraft based writings. This examination will attempt a relative investigation of the depiction of women’s in those occasions and in the contemporary occasions. The point of this survey paper is to fundamentally break down the broad examination done on the situation of women’s in Arthashastra. The examination depends fundamentally on the optional wellsprings of data that incorporates a few exploration works breaking down the depiction of women’s in crafted by Kautilya. It has been discovered that the status of women’s has not changed much since the antiquated occasions, women’s were stifled prior, and they are corrupted and disregarded today also. |
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| Keywords | ||
| Kautilya, Arthashastra, Women, Rights, Wives, Widow. | ||
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