LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 11 : 10 October 2011
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
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Indian Women in the Mirror of Society

Nidhi Bhatt, Ph.D. (English Literature), B.Ed.

Women as Subordinates

After the creation of this Universe, the first existence was of Man and Woman, since without women, men would have been an incomplete creation. So, the need of women was felt. She acts as mother, sister and wife of man. She is the mother of man who subsequently rules over her and wants to protect her and keep her under his control.

However, Indian women are mainly like subordinates, I mean the family life and the work pattern convey the idea that woman should be subordinate to and dependent on man. In our Indian society, so many women are working women, even though they depend on the male members. She is not regarded as an autonomous being in the society. She has to share all sorts of responsibilities in her life in the form of Grahlaxmi.

Manu, as quoted in Hunter College Women's Studies Collective (Ulku U. Bates, Florence L. Denmark, Virginia Held, Doroth) declared:

“Day and Night women must be kept in subordinate to the males of the family; in childhood to the father, in Youth to her husband, in old age to her sons. Even elsewhere; he must be worshipped as God” (Hunter College Women’s Studies Collective; Women’s Realities, Women’s Choices: An introduction to women’s studies (New York: Oxford Uni. Press 1983, P 68).

Ideal Picture Drawn by Others

In fact, society characterizes women as ideally warm, gentle, dependent and submissive. The woman may be seen and understood by her father in one way, her husband in another way, her son and daughter in some other ways and finally by herself in yet another way.

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Nidhi Bhatt, Ph.D. (English Literature), B.Ed.
Princess College
Devpuri
Raipur (C.G.)
Pt. Ravishankar University, Raipur (C.G.)
nidhibhatt03@yahoo.com
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