The Status of Women in Politics, Social Legislation, and their Social Work in Bengal in pre-Independence

Vol-8 | Issue-01 | January-2021 | Published Online: 15 January 2021    PDF ( 166 KB )
DOI: https://doi.org/10.53573/rhimrj.2021.v08i01.003
Author(s)
Mirajul Seikh 1

1M.A in History, Dept. of History, Visva-Bharati University

Abstract

From 1920s onwards, issues of ages assent, marriage, separate, polygamy, right of legacy and property; gives straightforwardly identified with Hindu ladies were bantered around and past the field of law. A large portion of the change activities came from the west and south areas of the country, yet Bengal, however less a piece of the administrative activities, turned into a significant field of these discussions, pulled between impulses of shared governmental issues, reformist social creative mind, and an arrangement, for example, starvation, riots and the segment. Bengal was in the pains of change. There were significant changes in sexual orientation relations in both the field of the family and in the public universe of instruction, business, social work and legislative issues. The Bengal government took a moderate remain on all issues of change, the legislative issues of numbers among Hindus and Muslims drove the intellectual elite to embrace many change endeavors. The issues kidnapping of Hindu ladies shook Bengal’s media and turned into the passage point for wise conversations on untouchability, window remarriage, women entitlement to property and separation. This paper endeavors to catch the elements of social change in Bengal transaction with social enactment endeavors at the nationwide level.

Keywords
Women, Politics, Legislation, Social Work, Pre-Independence.
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