The worth of a civilization can be judged by the place given to women in the society. In India, they occupied a high place in the social life of the early Aryans. The milder and more beneficent forces of nature were addressed as female deities and invoked with prayers. In medieval and modern India women have distinguished themselves, no less than men, in various spheres of life as rulers, leaders, fighters, saints, scholars, writers, social workers, artistes, warriors, politicians, administrators and diplomats. In the freedom struggle they stood shoulder to shoulder with their menfolk and fought the British rule determinedly, heroically and stoically. This book sketches out the life and role of great women of India past and present-who have made and are making history. Only many more great women than those included in this book. The sketches are brief and informative, not critical,
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