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- "Mayer's observation for central India would not be inaccurate for most communities in the subcontinent: a brother's tie with his sister is accounted very close. The two have grown up together, at an age when there is no distinction made between the sexes. And later, when the sister marries, the brother is seen as her main protector, for when her father has died to whom else can she turn if there is trouble in her conjugal household. The parental home, and after the parents' death the brother's home, often offers the only possibility of temporary or longer-term support in case of divorce, desertion, and even widowhood, especially for a woman without adult sons. Her dependence on this support is directly related to economic and social vulnerability." (en)
- Bound by a sacred gift, in happier hours, (en)
- Famine and death were sitting at the gate, (en)
- He came to the beleaguered walls too late, (en)
- He rushes on to danger or to death. (en)
- Now when the star of Kurnivati lowers, (en)
- The flower of Rajasthan had found a grave. (en)
- To prove a brother's undecaying faith; (en)
- Vain was the splendid sacrifice to save; (en)
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- — Govind Ballabh Pant, from Selected Works of Govind Ballabh Pant, Oxford University Press, 1998. (en)
- — Bina Agarwal in A Field of One's Own: Gender and Land Rights in South Asia , quoting Adrian C. Mayer, Caste and kinship in Central India (en)
- — From poem, "The Rakhi," in Oriental scenes, dramatic sketches, and tales , by Emma Roberts, p. 125 (en)
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