The Position of Women in Hindu Civilization: From Prehistoric Times to the Present Day

The Position of Women in Hindu Civilization will enable the reader to understand the subject in its true perspective, as it is based upon a critical and impartial survey of all the available data. The work not only surveys the position of Hindu women during the last four thousand years but also indicates the general lines on which the resent day problems confronting them should be solved.

The treatment is quite impartial; the limitations of the Hindu civilizations have not been passed over nor its excellences exaggerated, nor vice versa. The subject has never been treated with such realism, accuracy, impartiality ad comprehensiveness. The general reader will find the book absorbingly interesting. The scholar will find it original and illuminating. The student of sociology will find it stimulating and indispensable.