Constitutional Guarantees vs. Personal Laws: An Analytical Study on the Property Rights of Hindu Women in Bangladesh

Abstract

Much has been debated on the issue of women's right to property and the feasibility of its governance under traditional Hindu legal regime in Bangladesh. Hindus being the minor community in Bangladesh has been in deprivation of the utility of the expected changes for last six decades which in consequences has been creating a regime of flagrant non compliances with the universal human rights normative framework as to the twin principle of equality and non-discrimination. A Hindu women has limited title over her husband property, she becomes the owner of the property for enjoyment in her life time only after her death the property goes to her husband heirs. I have try to discuss the property rights of Hindu Women’s in Bangladesh in my thesis.