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THE CHINA ·MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1955,
THE RENAISSANCE
INDIAN WOMEN
Today is the fifth anniversary of the Republic of India and on this occasion Nayantara Sahipal tells of the emergence of Indian women from seclusion to the front ranks of public life.
OF
Few movements of modern times have been so rapidly and unobtrusively accomplished as the emergence of the Indian woman into public life, and this despite her prolonged past of subjugation. No fanfare has heralded her entry into politics and the professions, no militant feminism marks her outlook to the world. She quietly accepts her rights of equal citizenship with man and takes it for granted that each day should open up for them opportunities such as she has not enjoyed for the last few hundred years.
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It Is this heritage, peculiarly her uwn, which explains the nature of her emergence into India's
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The curtain rises over ancient a remarkable India revealing
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Today there ire thirty-four, try. has FL unique heritage, the understanding of Indien, changes took place in Women In Parlament
titude towards and distinct from the one she shares womanhood today.
ber and countless numbers in the
society's treatment of her. pro with the women of the world. matto fessions, a transition
retreated to a narrow
sphere, her relatively brief spun
earlier curtailed. twenty-five or thirty years, And
New political and social conditions gave rise yet this has been a remartontilyfe.
sind Sitent
new revolution
observances, erring
these harest ripple in the country's
gained ground through usigo. The Indian
woman, like her sister in medieval Europe, was not a person in her own right.
Despite this decline the early ideal Wis not obliterated. Though men had forgotten It India's literature and temple art still here fumultuous witness to
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Though the FOBRONX for 12 nature go far back, it began, es demand their rights, prove their land of North India, nti revolutions peln, at a partirapabilities, and assert their in- functioned in both the domestic public spheres. She moment, dependence. That this did not and the cular
psychological when in resprizese ter
India Mahatma happen
in part combined in herself the role of for all responsible Gonchis appeal, women of
the Indian wife and mother and that of nttitude -laws of spelety came forward
today. She artive citizen in the life of the These two facets 1 large nutribers to take
No woman in the world bud their was, in fact invited to assume community.
en- of her life were. planes beside their menfolk #reater responsibility
been so lavishly portrayed the separable. tuz Curaged to contribute for India's free- the strutale
her many moods in words, despr
changes
Gandhiji urgett
colours, And in stone. Rich, "Brothers and upon all Indians,
exuberant and urnule, painting Sisters,"
politlenl began an
and sculpture depicted her
a cherished
PALENGARRY" being could only speakris of the evil derbedi-
·GJENI VEEN. The ideal of the wite in 2500 have been depicted. Creating trut!.
days. Women
were wl-
TAGS DAMAR SAI But it was the son itself which
with In the Duchener BC was the woman well-versed her In exatle prevent
POLENGYLE" accounted, if not for the nettaal
was taken for granted the seriptures, one whose almond
and eytu
luxuriant phenomenon, for the calun man- that they WITC
Ebase for duration had been designed to tresses, bejewelled and beauti. in which at ber In
took place: guidance
asenable her to perform the sacra- fully tod
gowned, they portrayed work 513211
her making
Like thy men mest besides at possible for woman
husband. her as a woman who gloried were the mont Jerar! self- they were
sert and Healthy enough to bear strong her femininity. Showing her nicherra Froiz the sheltering
soned.
Together they lacking sons for battle, wise enough to unveiled in public places, in contines af purdah and all the | Gandhiji's programme,
bring them up in traditions of processions,
banquets restrictions imposed on her by
honour. wotnan, the cultured assemblies, they paid tribute to long-observed custom Inila il Unique, 215, was the reason, Fand beautiful consort of her her as an intelligent and perition where she is 'nol de- renching fur back to the begin- " wurrfor husband, was expected scientious member of society. iurred from Buy
Literature lauded her fide- Jity and her de votion to duty, not us the in-
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11 1s in reality u renaissance.
Today she re- presents a curious paradox. This woman who has surrendered
neither
ira
ditional graceful attire
Xirtion
nor any of her essentially femleine outlook to the demands
of modern times.
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work of tradition
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carries emclent Job of work. Though the rtals on the
threshold of great changes in a 110- them whose sucini
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Integral
active
this
un
shie emains,
COSTUMES OF
INDIA
nt
In
con-
evitable attitude
of a timid crea- ture, but as the courageous choice of an equal part. It was tor ner. robust an ideal to
long be shadowe: by custom.
That
It emerged once Again
under Grandhiji's aegis Indicated that I was es vigorous as it had once been.
Woman's post- dion in free India is a harking back to her Vedic an- et stress.
na
She h29 heed to seek n pattern reflecting Another civilisa- tion er to adopt sttitudes unsuited to her own set- ting. This
-
A group of girls photographed in the different costumes of the various regions volution has had representative of of India.-P.I.B. India Photo.
nevertheless, the
steadfast
way
of life. In India
sht is
counts for the fact that her re-
no outward ment- festation There has been no major change, for example, in her style of dress. The essentifols
of her equal citiamship with man too,
one of many reminders nings of Indian history, that to be all things that man had
made this contribution possible not the leisure to be. that this country's post is an
Widowhood was no bar from Indispensable accompaniment to the understanding of ita modern way. The trends. Only in its historical perspective can this paradox be properly understood.
in a simple and matter-of-fact a full life, no bar either from were recognised long ago in her
*
*
way
distant past is re-
own culture on her own soil, in mote and much has happened in re-marriage. "Rise up, woman, " India's chequered history aince as a hymn of the Rig-Veda this very land. They did not have the early ideals dourished, But to the widow, "thou art lying to be borrowed
by one whose life is gone; come as long as the ideal remains
the Inspiration for the actual, it to the world of the living, away will have the power to
to mould from thy husband,"
ever
for
its
Dource,
from another
There is a common heritage to
But centuries of indifference which all women are heir. Their
to her welfare separate her from. common functions and respon the mind of any century, how- Vedic India produced an ideal her carly heritage. It is true siblilties have bound thent and
period removed it may be of womanhood such as did not that even during this to some extent have limited from its origin, In the same exist 'n any part of the ancient there were women who dis- them. in most countries of the
in B manner as the
great religions world, Nelthor the
themselves Jofty Unguished world
of felds. There has their development has founded long ago will continue pedestal nor the submissive veil | variety
been been along somewhat similar to
to provide spiritual guidance for was its hallmark.
dearth of illustrious no restrictions. giving
ges to come.
women in Indian history. There in all the ages man to freedom, an un- The past continues to gradually
have t
have been scholars, philosophers enlightened attitude toward hoid, on any civilisation which
and poetesses among them, queen them being replaced by greater has its roots in antiquity. Es-
regents and rulers, even women nomially trúc
this of India Woman"trod the earth free who went into battle, privileges for them.
where
passage of the
of time, and proud of bearing, as befitted
ins the consort of T conqueror. But by and large they have though bringing changes, Vedic Indians thought poorly of suffered as a result of the many left a certain inner core of life
restrictions Imposed upon them. untouched. Why this should be asceticism.
Full-blooded men and women All over the world there have so is a mystery, but that it is
Between the distant 'past and glorified the institution of ne who glory been periods when woman's the caro is evident to anyone status as a human being has who has found in some Indian marriage, the birth of children, the present time society offers a
where counted for little. Until re-face or gesture, some style of and the duty of all able persons tarnished record
treatment of woman is concern- cently society has almost univer- dress or jewellery, some current to their community, the concept ed. It is to crise this, that the
of India sally kept her in the home, over-Idea or belief a startling 10 port among them. This camo / motion
to hor equality of ruling her. but the dosipation in any semblance to that prevalent in
sphere. But the art or literature of. severni | later when the changing. for opportunity with mpn, A. con÷
tunes of history created the the epart from this
general similarity thousand years ago. So
Indian [earliest known.
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significant for woman, as that of every coun-womanhood
no place. Not godliness but bated in Parliament, which socks more just status for woman humanity was the axalted ideni,
"with regard to marriage Even the Vedle gods were like divorce laws and the inheritance humans, with the same tempes of property.
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