ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the struggle of women until recent times to get equal property rights through the court of justice tracing back to the Vedic age. It further takes cognizance of various property rights available during the early medieval period to a daughter, wife, mother and widow. For the linear development of the subject, both inscriptional and literary sources are evaluated. Property rights of the women of the early medieval period dated CE 600–1200 in regional contrast are also taken into consideration. The grants of lands to temple girls tend to demonstrate that dancing girls had some property rights.
