Role of Women and Women's Organisation-Part 2

Having discussed the role of women in Indian society in Role of Women and Women's Organisation-Part 1 we will discuss the womens organisation and movement in the nineteenth and early twentieth century.

Social movement has been defined as an organised effort by a group of people either to bring or resist change in the society. Women’s movement is an important variant of social movement in the sense that it aims to bring changes in the institutional arrangements, values, customs and beliefs in the society that have subjugated women over the years.The reform movements of nineteenth and early twentieth centuries focused on women’s issues. The Brahmo Samaj, Prarthana Samaj and the Arya Samaj played important role in projecting women’s issues in a wider context.Womens organisation and participation in the national movement was exemplary.In the post-Independence period constitutional provisions and social legislations for women, planned economic development and social change affected women’s movement significantly.During the 1970s and 1980s occured the resurgence of women’s movement in India.

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