Thread by @oolabmys

"We sat in the shade with Begam Shah Nawaz, and she told me about the status of Muslim women at Lahore. When she told me that the Muslems of Lahore have adopted the customlaw (old Hindu) in place of the Muslem Law in regard to women’s economic status and (1/5)

inheritance, I confess I was greatly surprised. For the Indian Muslems, on the whole, call themselves fundamentahsts, and are supposed to be keepers of the Religious Law; and Islamic Law in regard to these things is progressive and equitable, while the Hindu (2/5)

Law does not accept woman’s right to inherit at all.

She told me that one hundred and seventy Muslem women had become Christians in order to be able to inherit ; for each religious
community has its particular Family Law, and die individual who passes from (3/5)

one religion to the * other also becomes subject to another inheritance law. Individuals should be free to change their faith if they find some other faith more congenial to their spiritual aspirations; but when this is done for material benefit it is ugly. (4/5)

And uglier still to think that men knowingly have forced women into this."

Inside India by
Halide Edib
A Turkish women visited India, before partation and published her book in in 1937 from London.
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#edib #book #Lahore