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Two major excellencies make this volume significant: its relevance and richness. A lot of women in India today is by no means satisfactory. Our own writers on feminism have made it very clear, with the help of both argument and well-researched evidence. But the mere diagnosis is hardly enough. We have to find ways to remedy the ills. Would it be proper to quietly acquiesce in, and follow the measures suggested by feminist writers in the West? Or do we have to ...
The book presents the critiques of women's position in the social philosophy of Dharmasastras coming from both the east and west. It challenges the authoritative status of the western philosophical interpretation, and an imperfect understanding of the orient. The book does not aim at eulogizing the Dharmasastras, but at making a candid analysis of women's position in Dharmasastras. It does not acquiesce in all that the socio-philosophical texts say about women, ...