Women, who constitute nearly half of the population of Indian society, were suffering from various oppressive, dehumanizing and exploitative social practices. Gandhiji profoundly distressed by their degenerated condition made relentless efforts for ameliorating their position in private as well as in public life as he believed that the real swaraj could not be attained without the upliftment and consequent awakening of the vast mass of women. Gandhi's painstaking ...
