Question

How dayabhaga system promotes gender equality?

Answer 1

It promotes gender equality by letting women grant various possessions.

• All land, including the person's notional share of joint family property, was considered as self-acquired/separate property under the effective scheme.
• Daughters had the right to inherit separate property from their father in any of these schemes, but only if there were no known male heirs and the widowed mother.
• It was supposed to provide a succession law giving sons and daughters equal inheritance rights. Women had absolute control of their stridhan given at the time of wedding and could inherit immovable property as well.