खंड 2 No. Issue: 5, July, 1513-1523 (2025) (2025): Women’s Property and Inheritance Rights under the Hindu Succession (Amendment) Act, 2005: A Critical Legal and Socio-Empirical Analysis

Abstract
The research study summarises that the reformation in the
legal notions of the Hindu Succession Act or HSA, 2005,
is recognised as a progressive hallmark towards women's
empowerment, zero gender discrimination, and gender
equality in Indian society. The study objective is to
thoroughly scrutinise the influence of HSA 2005, upon
women's rights and empowerment. This research study
followed the secondary data collection method with
thematic interpretations. The key finding associates with
inheritance lawsuits and constitutional paradigms of nondiscrimination and equality. This study revealed the gap
between substantive social justice and formal legal
equality in terms of gender equality from the Indian
perspective. Despite having sociocultural resistance, the
Indian judicial interpretations have legally strengthened
the legal position and rights of a daughter upon her
father's ancestral properties.
Keywords: Inheritance Law, the Hindu Succession Act,
Gender Equality, Women’s Property Rights, Feminism
Theory