{"id":133207,"date":"2023-03-03T10:39:39","date_gmt":"2023-03-03T05:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/?p=133207"},"modified":"2023-03-03T10:39:39","modified_gmt":"2023-03-03T05:09:39","slug":"describe-the-social-implications-of-access-to-resources-during-mahabharat-period","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/education\/describe-the-social-implications-of-access-to-resources-during-mahabharat-period","title":{"rendered":"Describe the Social implications of access to Resources during Mahabharat period"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Question 10:Describe the Social implications of access to Resources during Mahabharat period<\/h2>\n<h3>The correct answer is -i. Gendered access to property-. According to the Dharmashastras<br \/>\nthe paternal estate was to be divided equally amongst sons after<br \/>\nthe death of the Father, with a special share for the eldest.<br \/>\nii. Women could not claim a share of these resources.<br \/>\niii. Women were allowed to retain stridhana<br \/>\niv. This could be inherited by their children, without the husband<br \/>\nhaving any claim on it.<br \/>\nv. Wealthy women such as the Vakataka queen Prabhavati Gupta<br \/>\nhad property including lands.<br \/>\nvi. Epigraphic and textual evidences suggest that upper-class women<br \/>\nhad access to resources, land, cattle and money.<br \/>\nvii. Varna and access to property-There were criterion for regulating<br \/>\naccess to wealth was varna.,<\/h3>\n<h3>viii. While a variety of occupations were listed for varnas<br \/>\nix. Poems included in the Tamil Sangam anthologies often illuminate<br \/>\nsocial and economic relationships, while there were differences<br \/>\nbetween rich and poor, those who controlled resources were also<br \/>\nexpected to share them.<br \/>\nx. Any other relevant point<br \/>\nTo be evaluated as a whole<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question 10:Describe the Social implications of access to Resources during Mahabharat period The correct answer is -i. Gendered access to property-. According to the Dharmashastras the paternal estate was to be divided equally amongst sons after the death of the Father, with a special share for the eldest. ii. Women could not claim a share [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21830,"featured_media":132941,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-133207","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-education"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21830"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133207"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133209,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133207\/revisions\/133209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mapsofindia.com\/my-india\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}