num_pages: 405
description: The Position of Women in Hindu Civilization will enable the reader to understand the subject in true perspective as it is based upon a critical and impartial survey of all the available data. The work not only surveys the position of Hindu women during the last four thousand years but also indicates the general lines on which the present day problems confronting them should be solved. The treatment is quite impartial; the limitations of the Hindu Civilization have not been passed over nor its excellences exaggerated nor vice versa. The subject has never been treated with such realism accuracy impartiality and comprehensiveness. The general reader will find the book absorbingly interesting. The scholar will find it original and illuminating. The student of sociology will find it stimulating and indispensable.
language: English
title: Position of Women in Hindu Civilization: From Prehistoric Times to the Present Day
publisher: Motilal Banarsidass