'The condition of women in nineteenth-century India was pitiable'. Elaborate this statement with regard to the social evils that plagued them.
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'The condition of women in nineteenth-century India was pitiable'. Elaborate this statement with regard to the social evils that plagued them.
Women were not allowed to study. They did not have the right to inherit property. The social evils were:
- The practice of window burning or ‘sati’
- The pitiable condition of windows
- lack of education among girls
- Child marriages
- Female infanticide, that is the practice of killing a girl soon after birth
- Polygamy, that is, the practice of having more than one wife and
- Purdah System
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