INDIAN HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The patriarchal state of early India viewed adultery as one of the major “crimes’ in society. In the Buddhist literature only two functions are associated with kinship in early India: punishing those who commit crimes against the family, i e, adulterers, and those who commit crimes against property, i e, robbers.

Detailed explanation-2: -India is also a patriarchal society, which, by definition, describes cultures in which males as fathers or husbands are assumed to be in charge and the official heads of households.

Detailed explanation-3: -Further, all civilizations are patriarchal, in that men tend to enjoy preferential access to the rewards of society and control over the productive and reproductive powers of women, who bear the greater burdens of exploitation and oppression.

Detailed explanation-4: -Indian society like a number of ‘classical’ societies is still patriarchal. Patriarchal values regulating sexuality, reproduction, and social productions are expressed through specific cultural metaphors. Overt rules prohibiting women from certain important specific activities and denying certain rights did exist.

Detailed explanation-5: -This puts the origin of patriarchy in the 8000-3000 BC period, when early agriculture yielded a surplus and the beginnings of militarisation helped males to seize control of the surplus and the main producers of labour power, women. 33-35). male domination itself. regard to the historical period of state societies.