what in your opinion were the reasons for the appalling condition of women in Indian society at the beginning of the 19th century
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Answer:
The position of women in the nineteenth century was far from being satisfactory. It was their total seclusion which brought about their physical and mental degeneration. In many parts of India, especially in the north and east, the purdah had long become an established system both among Hindus and Muslims.
Explanation:
After 1970, the Intemational Women's Year; numerous studies were
undertaken to describe the pathetic condition of Indian women with respect to their
lives and status in the family and society. With this began the renaissance in western
India. A few scholars paid attention to women's position and their condition in the
Indian families through the ages. ' There were very few women doctors who paid
some attention to the social customs affecting women's health.^ Others tried to figure
out various solutions to women's questions initiating different and new trends of
history, basically colonial and nationalist history