a short presentation on Women‘s emancipation in India.

1. By,
Samridhi Gupta

2.  In
Indian society women were treated
generally as maid or slaves as if they had no
will or desire of their own.
 They had to follow their husbands in all
matters women were given as payment for
loss to a gambling opponent.
 To show devotion, they were forced to burn
themselves alive by jumping onto the funeral
pyre of their husbands after their death.
 This practice, called “SATI” continued until
the end of 17th century when this custom was
outlawed in spite of the dismay it caused the
Hindu religious Leaders.

4.  Although SATI was widely practiced until
19th century and still continues in some of
the end of
the remote
areas of India. In certain regions of India , women
are offered to the priests as things to be exploited.
 In others they were sacrificed to Hindu gods to
please them or seek rain. Some Hindu laws even
declare that : “the unwanted patience, the
tornados or tsunamis, death, hell fire, poison, snakes
are no less evil than women.”

5.  At
last many people made
various objections against
women but yet the
women have proved all
these thinking wrong by
working towards progress.
 The women today
improvised their image in
the society by excelling in
almost each and every
field.
 This is all today possible
because of common but
great personalities such as
Pandita Ramabai and
Ramabai Ranade.
Pandita Ramabai
Ramabai Ranade

6.  The
Arya Mahila Samaj and Sharada Sadan was
founded by Pandita Ramabai.
 Sevasadan was founded by Ramabai Ranade.
 Also, Bharat Mahila Parishad(1904) and the All
India Women’s Conference(1927) was founded.
 Later, after Independence, due to all of these
contributions, women were equal status as that
of men in the Constitution Of India.