GREAT CIVILIZATION SANS EMPOWERED WOMEN: AN IMPOSSIBILITY

GREAT CIVILIZATION SANS EMPOWERED WOMEN:

AN IMPOSSIBILITY 

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Position of women in a society goes a long way in helping one to have real understanding of its innermost nature. It shows us what heights have been achieved by that society.

Karunamayee Mamtamayee Radhika Devi (Wife of Late Prof .Dr. Rabindra Nath Ojha ) with wife of Late Shankar Mahato , Tharu Schedule Tribe of Bakhari Bazar village of Tharuhat of West Champaran
 Image(C) Dr Ajay Kumar Ojha

Women are generally regarded as the weaker sex and human nature, being what it is, the temptation to underestimate them and ignore them. But still, if a particular nation or society is wise, just and liberal enough to treat them as equals and give them equal opportunities in all respects, then that would really be a great point in its favour, a grand step in the forward march. 

Image (C) Dr Ajay Kumar Ojha

From this point of view, India has always stood before the world as a great paradox. Very difficult to understand. Perhaps, this is why, there is a common belief in the West that women in India occupied a very inferior position until the advent of the British and the introduction of English education. 

Image (C) Dr Ajay Kumar Ojha

There are several critics in the West who are still misleading a good portion of the world and impressing upon it the degeneration and degradation of women that prevailed in India for centuries. The converts to this belief curiously enough seem to fail in discerning the anachronism in this fallacious statements. 

Image(C) Dr Ajay Kumar Ojha

It is indeed quite obvious that no country could have attained the height of civilization which India attained nor have given to the world the wealth of knowledge that she gave if her womenfolk had been kept down and denied equal opportunities and rights with her menfolk . 

"Raja Rammohun Roy and Mahatma Gandhi - Their Contribution towards Emancipation of Women: A Comparative Perspective" by Ajay Kumar (Ojha)

Dissertation for Award of M.Phil Degree from JNU