Right to maintenance of hindu and muslim women in India

Abstract

Right to Maintenance is a multi-dimensional aspect all over the world and considering the newlinesocio-economic condition of Indian society at large it has emerged as an important topic newlinewhich as a far reaching impact as far as Indian Women is concerned. newlineMaintenance in its present form constitutes a serious problem in India; it has become a newlinesubject of great socio-legal significance. At the turn of the last mid-century the institution of newlinemaintenance and its giving and taking has increasingly gained social sanction and newlineacceptance. In the last few decades the country has witnessed the maintenance system in a newlineform far more acute than before. The voluntary element, maintenance has gradually newlinedisappeared and the coercive element has slowly crept in and struck deep roots in both the newlineunmarried women and post-marital relationship. Nowadays maintenance has become an newlineinstitutionalized part of the marriage arrangement. It has become a cause of growing social newlineproblem and injustice. newlineIn Indian society, a woman has always been viewed as living goddess. Bringing a young girl newlineinto the matrimonial home has been considered as a great event and she is supposed to newlinebring the fortune in the family of the bridegroom. She has been regarded as the ultimate newlineforce of the family and the ultimate protection of culture, affection, kindness and sacrifice and newlinehas always catered to the interest of the family. But in reality this image has been shattered newlineand the same woman is subjected to harassment, taunt, humiliation and cruelty, one that is newlinenot Just mental but emotional and physical as well. For her failure to satisfy man s lust for newlinemaintenance, a married woman is murdered with no qualms of conscience and in most newlineinhuman modes, or else is incited, prompted, instigated no commit suicide, it is unfortunate newlinethat respect for womanhood in our country is on the decline and murders of, and suicides by newlineyoung married women, are on the rise by the hour. newlineA woman confronts the possibility of problem related to maintenance at every stage in her newlinelife. Closely related