Volume 1

Sexual life in ancient India : a study in the comparative history of Indian culture / by Johann Jakob Meyer.

  • Meyer, Johann Jakob, 1870-1939.
Date:
1930
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Credit: Sexual life in ancient India : a study in the comparative history of Indian culture / by Johann Jakob Meyer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    During the last few years great interest has been aroused by a notorious attack upon the treatment of women in Mother India. Professor Meyer, an acknowledged authority upon the literature of ancient India, here gives us the conclusions of a thoroughly detailed examination of the position of woman two thousand years ago, based upon the epic literature. He deals with the Indian conception of love ; the life of woman as maid, wife, and widow ; sexual relations both in and outside marriage ; and the general position of women in social life. The book contains a vast amount of material hitherto unpublished in English, and will be indispensable not only to those interested in the ancient civilization of India, but to all students in that field of anthro¬ pology with which it deals. A Volume in The Broadway Oriental Library Edited by CLEMENT EGERTON