Indian Women: Contemporary Essays

This compilation of essays by female scholars and activists views women’s condition from legal perspective, through policies on employment, and through the prism of education, historical narratives, inequality and so on. Historians, lawyers, journalists and others cover a variety of themes such as women’s legal entitlements, the roles and hopes of Dalits, working class women and others, inequalities in education, women in politics and state of women in contemporary Kerala. They also presents a macro-picture of women in the country drawn from many statistical sources, covering ageing of women, female population figure, the sex ratio and proportion of widows. An essay examines the condition of women in ancient India.