: How the taboo on Hindu widow remarriage led to liberal abortion norms in colonial India #IndiaNEWS The contours of gender-related reform campaigns also contributed to the lukewarm nature of anti-abortion

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How the taboo on Hindu widow remarriage led to liberal abortion norms in colonial India #IndiaNEWS
The contours of gender-related reform campaigns also contributed to the lukewarm nature of anti-abortion efforts. From the early nineteenth century, a series of social movements about women emerged across colonial South Asia. One such movement was the campaign to permit and destigmatise the remarriage of Hindu widows. Traditionally, Hindu women in many upper-caste communities did not remarry after the death of their husbands. They lived under ritually and materially restricted conditions in the homes of their dead husbands’ families. The Hindu remarriage movement focused on the plight of young widows, including virgin widows whose husbands had died before adolescent cohabitation began. Unable to remarry, some widows of childbearing age had extramarital relationships and became pregnant. They turned to abortion to avoid social and economic ruin. Financial support from their dead husbandp?&H?[Z[Y?????[??[??H?Y????&H??[?Z[???[X?X?K[?Y?????[?[HH?????YY???[????][???X?H?HN?????X[YZ[???]??[??YX??[??H??X?][??[?H?Y???[X??XY?K???[Y[?[???H?Y?^?T???L?
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