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hi-29	AMNA SAEED; NAFEESA NAZ	Cultural and Religious Perspectives on Gender based Notions of Widowhood in South Asian Literature	2021	13	.pdf	application/pdf	5312	298	61	[she] has jealously sat guard over her daughter-in-law’.23 This behaviour of the society as shown in literature is followed in some areas of the country too, as it is substantiated by a research, according to which ‘In many families, as a custom in Chitral (a District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), widows are not allowed to remarry as the property of that widow will remain with their heirs’.24 In this way, the widows, unlike widowers who enjoy their rights to re-marry, face oppression and are not given their due right by the family and/or society, which comes under the rubric of gender inequality. For this purpose, the comparative analysis method proposed by Tilly18 is used to comprehend, understand the status and role of widows as expected and presumed by the subjects in South Asian society.	cache/hi-29.pdf	txt/hi-29.txt