1. "The idea of an independent woman was
inconceivable". Elaborate this statement
highlighting the social evils that plagued
them.
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>> Girls were not allowed it to go to school because the majority believe that education would create a bad influence on a girls mind.
>>They had no right on family property child marriage was common and a girl's were usually married off at an early age, a girl had no say in selection of her husband and she would be married off to a much older man polygamy was practiced by men which affected mental emotional and social status of women.
>>Female infanticide was committed as a girl child was often considered as a burden on family.
>>Woman whose husband died ,was
burnt alive on the husband's pyre. Such an act was considered virtuous and the woman and was termed as sati. widow re-marriage was unheard of and even debarred buy Hindu laws.
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