Keywords
Right to Inherit
Property Rights
Rights in Agricultural Land
Unawareness of Right
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Abstract
Women's ownership of agricultural land is extremely poor in India and globally. Various factors are responsible for this disparity, and one of the primary reasons concluded by previous research is unawareness on the part of women. In all research conducted at the ground level, a significant barrier to implementing the Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act of 2005 is that women are unaware of their rights in agricultural land and the bureaucratic process of land transfer. Thus, the researchers undertake this research to prove or disprove the above findings with the same population and questions but with different profiles. The respondents in this study are Hindu women who are highly educated and well aware of their legal rights. They are all highly educated, have a law background, and understand the decisive role of the Amendment Act 2005. This empirical study gathers the views of women working in the field of law regarding their rights to inherit agricultural land and the challenges they face while they demand their rights. The research concludes that there is too much disparity among women in awareness about their rights in property as amended by the Hindu Succession (Amendment Act) 2005. The interesting thing is that women who have a law background hesitate in claiming their rights as they think it may destroy their relationship with relatives.
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