Human Rights, Gender & Environment

SM2-Gender

7 LESSON 6 WOMEN’S MOVEMENT IN INDIA

LESSON 6

WOMEN’S MOVEMENT IN INDIA

Introduction

 
The status of women has remained low since time immemorial. There is no record history to
explain the answer to how and why women got to receive secondary position in the society. Indian
women are inheritors of a very complex pattern of social models and cultural ideals. Some of the most
acrimonious and emotionally charged debates of the nineteenth century round precisely those issues

which signified women's oppression and their poor position. Inevitably, the perceived indicators of 
women's low status like purdah, sati, female infanticide, child marriage and enforced widowhood, ‐
formed essential items in the agenda of attack of almost all the major reformers of the ninetieth
century India whether they belong to the Brahmo samaj of Bengal and eastern India indifferent to the
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