Hindu Succession Amendment Act, 2005

Q. How do women benefit under the new law - the Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act, 2005?

Q. Provide a brief description of the right of women with regard to property after the amendment to the Hindu Succession Act, 1956 in 2005.

Q. Match the following.

Note -
HSA: Hindu Succession Act
HSAA: Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act

1. 2005
2. Gender equality
3. Gender inequality
4. 1956

Q. What issue is the poem trying to raise? Do you think this is an important issue? Why?

Q.

Look at the poem carefully and answer the following questions.

A daughter's wish
Father inherited our house from his father
And everyone says he'll leave it to brother
But what about me and my mother?
To expect a share in my father's home
Is not very womanly, I am told.
But I really want a place of my own
Not dowry of silk and gold.

(Source: Reflections on My Family, Anjali Monteiro, TISS)

1. What does the above poem refer to?
2. Explain the right of women with respect to property before the Hindu Succession Amendment Act, 2005.

Q. Are there women in your neighbourhood who own property? How did they acquire it?

Q. Before the amendment in 2005, the Hindu Succession Act discriminated against ______.

1. women
2. men
3. Patwaris
4. businessmen

Q.

Apart from Hindus, the Hindu Succession Act is applicable to members of which communities? Pick the most appropriate option from below.

1. Jains, Sikhs, Buddhists
2. Christians, Jains, Sikhs
3. Muslims, Buddhists, Jains
4. Jains, Sikhs, Muslims

Q. It is the year 2004 and Priya's father has just passed away. Her father, Rajesh, was the owner of a medium-sized plot of agricultural land on which he cultivated rice and wheat. Who is to inherit this property?

1. Priya's only brother
2. Priya's mother
3. The government
4. Priya

Q. The Hindu Succession Act, 1956 needed which of the following in 2005 to better suit the norms of present-day society?

1. A law
2. An amendment
3. An explanation
4. A rule

Q. Only _____ could inherit agricultural land prior to the Hindu Succession Amendment Act, 2005.

1. daughters
2. sisters
3. sons
4. wives

Q. The Hindu Succession Act was amended after __ years.

1. 50
2. 51
3. 49
4. 48

Q. Men and women need to be treated as _____.

1. opposites
2. superior
3. problems
4. equals

Q. The Hindu Succession Act was amended in which year?

1. 2003
2. 2005
3. 2007
4. 2002