Dignity of Woman) is an 1882 essay, published in 1884, by Manilal Dwivedi written in Gujarati which discusses the status of women in Hindu tradition.

He analysed the subject in the light of the Hindu view of life in detail and argued with close logic against permitting widow remarriage.

[1] In 1884 Manilal was still resident in Bombay and was spurred to publish the essay after he came across and studied a copy of Auguste Comte's System of Positive Polity.

[4] The author deployed a number of stylistic techniques including rhetoric and polemic to reinforce his arguments.

[6] After its 1885 publication, a critical review of Nari Pratishtha appeared in the January–March, 1887 issue of the Gujarati language magazine Buddhiprakash.

The anonymous reviewer criticized Manilal, mainly on two grounds: firstly, that it is not sinful to remarry; and secondly, that the argument that love forecloses the possibility of remarriage is invalid.

[7] Manilal responded to this criticism in the first issue of Bharatibhushan, a magazine edited by Balashankar Kantharia,[3] writing that he had not suggested that widow remarriage is "sinful".