Patriarchal Conflict in Modern Hindu Households

To understand how marital conflict can arise in modern Hindu households owing to a clash between traditional patriarchal attitudes and the modern Hindu-family experience in the United States, it is crucial to understand Indian history and tradition in general and the culture of Hindu patriarchy in particular. The modern structure of Indian families must be put through the filter of Hinduism, and the whole of Indian history, culture, and art. Aspects of Indian cultural, social, or political experience in America that are to be understood with reference to the religious hegemony of Hinduism in India are difficult to overstate. Hinduism is above all religious rather than aesthetic or sociocultural in character, but the religion itself strongly influences the shape of culture. Indeed, Lannoy states that the

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own or her husband's) she found herself. Under the new patriarchy, unlike the old, women found ways to learn to read, indeed were encouraged to read by advice manuals that were meant to enter into the domestic sphere. While under new patriarchy it was the case that the husband's household authority was paramount, it was also the case that women meant to subscribe to such authority had to read about it, hence had to be educated in ways that had not been possible under old patriarchy. Pointing women in the direction of domestic submissiveness seems to have had the effect of appropriating any British impulse there might have been toward social reform and male-female egalitarianism that extended beyond the banning of suttee. Equally, it could equate Hindu patriarchy with Hindu nationalism, in opposition to the values and authority of the Raj. Walsh says that this is a feature of one 1900 advice manual, which sought to make women's domestic role into a project of domestic love and romance: "The husband is a woman's only god and serving him her highest dharma." Walsh interprets wifely devotion and embrace of new patriarchy as "a tactic deployed along one patriarchal axis to deflect the customs, controls, and hierarchy of another."
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