Living Death: Trauma of Widowhood in India

This book, while giving an overview of the status of widows, contains 25 case studies and critical essays by specialists that focus on the marginalisation peculiar to individual regions and specific kind of widows. It is indeed a rich and comprehensive compilation of contributions by eminent social scientists who have made even an academic assessment of impact of recent armed conflict in Jammu and Kashmir and Kargil on those who bore the brunt of endless mental and physical agony.