INJUSTICE AGAINST WOMEN IN THE RAMAYANA
INTRODUCTION:
Woman had a secondary role in the society. She is dominated by her husband and also she act as a servant of her own husband. Male child preference , matrimonial life and the ruling system shows the position of women in the society. A women after marriage should led a life with her husband’s parents by leaving her parents who was with her and taking care of her till marriage from childhood. Sita is seen as a symbol of silence which shows that women did not had a freedom of speech. Sita accepted the ordeal without speaking a word. Ramayana shows …show more content…
As a result the sages told her that her head will fall off. Her part in the Ramayana indicates the restriction on women to study during the ancient times that the distance between education and women. They were not encouraged to study in ancient times. Women are not expected to become greatly learned and they could not even discuss the topics with wise.
Gargi College was established in the year 1967 and is a leading South Campus college of the University of Delhi. It is a college for women and offers education in Arts and Humanities, Commerce, Science and Education.
Gargi College was named after an enlightened woman named Gargi, figuring in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishada of the Vedic Age. She emerges as an intelligent and bold person embodying the spirit of inquiry juxtaposed with faith as is shown by her penetrating and challenging questions to the great sage Yajnavalkya. In the Upanishad Gargi seems to represent the intellectual potential of the race of Homo sapiens, which continues to manifest itself, in quest of ever-widening fields of
INTRODUCTION:
Woman had a secondary role in the society. She is dominated by her husband and also she act as a servant of her own husband. Male child preference , matrimonial life and the ruling system shows the position of women in the society. A women after marriage should led a life with her husband’s parents by leaving her parents who was with her and taking care of her till marriage from childhood. Sita is seen as a symbol of silence which shows that women did not had a freedom of speech. Sita accepted the ordeal without speaking a word. Ramayana shows …show more content…
As a result the sages told her that her head will fall off. Her part in the Ramayana indicates the restriction on women to study during the ancient times that the distance between education and women. They were not encouraged to study in ancient times. Women are not expected to become greatly learned and they could not even discuss the topics with wise.
Gargi College was established in the year 1967 and is a leading South Campus college of the University of Delhi. It is a college for women and offers education in Arts and Humanities, Commerce, Science and Education.
Gargi College was named after an enlightened woman named Gargi, figuring in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishada of the Vedic Age. She emerges as an intelligent and bold person embodying the spirit of inquiry juxtaposed with faith as is shown by her penetrating and challenging questions to the great sage Yajnavalkya. In the Upanishad Gargi seems to represent the intellectual potential of the race of Homo sapiens, which continues to manifest itself, in quest of ever-widening fields of