14-01-2016 Thursday
Holy Mother By Swami Nikhilananda: 011
Introduction: Women of India - 07
Let us first turn to the modern period. This period begins with the latter half of the nineteenth century, when the British rule was fully established. Educated people came in contact with Western culture and the national life took a new direction. In this renaissance, Indian women’s inner potentialities found expression through many channels. In India’s freedom struggle for political freedom during the present century, men and women fought side by side, courted jail and persecution together. When India attained freedom, women were given without hesitation, such positions as those of Governor of a Province, Ambassador, and Member of Parliament or Cabinet. These Indian women, like their sisters in the past, did not have to compete with men. Whenever a competent woman appeared, no attempt was made to suppress her. Since the eighties of the last century, Hindu girls have been studying in universities along with boys. After India became free, hundreds of Hindu women, often alone and sometimes with their husbands, began coming to Europe and America every year to acquire higher knowledge in science, technology, medicine, and the humanities. A few of them have secured teaching jobs in Western universities. Indian women suffer today in the estimation of the world not because of any lack of achievements on their part, but because of the world’s ignorance of their achievements.
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Holy Mother - Being the Life of Sri Sarada Devi Wife of Sri Ramakrishna And Helpmate in his Mission By Swami Nikhilananda p: 5 – 6
