Gandhi on Women Emancipation
Keywords:
Women, Emancipation, Political Involvement, WidowAbstract
The present century, the age of humanism is the high time to provide an equal privilege and dignity to all the suppressed and oppressed sections of the society. Therefore, Women emancipation and upliftment has been becoming a burning issue day by day in the present century. Unlike many noble souls who focused on this issue, Gandhi is one of them. Gandhi had distinct views regarding different issues related to women. In this article we shall try to analyse Gandhi’s views regarding different women issues in the present society. Gandhi focused on different women issues like marriage, divorce, widow remarriage, pardah system, dowry system, women education, political involvement of women etc. So we shall try to find the way out that Gandhi prescribed regarding different women issues existing in the society.
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