Women in India

The status of women in India has been refers to many reform over the span of recorded Indian history. Their position in society deteriorated early in India's ancient period, especially in the Indo-Aryan speaking regions, as well as their subordination continued to be reified well into India's early sophisticated period.

During the Hindu Widows' Remarriage Act, 1856, Female Infanticide Prevention Act, 1870, & Age of Consent Act, 1891. The Indian constitution prohibits discrimination based on sex and empowers the government to follow special measures for them. Women's rights under the Constitution of India mainly include equality, dignity, and freedom from discrimination; additionally, India has various statutes governing the rights of women.

Several women hit served in various senior official positions in the Indian government, including that of the President of India, the Prime Minister of India, the Speaker of the Lok Sabha. However, many women in India stay on to face significant difficulties. The rates of malnutrition are exceptionally high among adolescent girls and pregnant and lactating women in India, with repercussions for children's health. Violence against women, particularly sexual violence, is a serious concern in India.

Women in India during British rule

A little Mussulman girl, Calcutta, 1844 lithograph of a Muslim girl in India wearing paijamas and kurti; drawn by Emily Eden, wife of the Governor-General of India, George Eden

Women and children bathing and collecting water at a ghat in Banares Varanasi, the holy Hindu city on the banks of the Ganges river in northern India, 1885

Anandibai Joshi MD class of 1886, Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania

Pandita Ramabai Saraswati

During the British Raj, numerous reformers such as Ram Mohan Roy, Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar and Jyotirao Phule fought for the betterment of women. Peary Charan Sarkar, a former student of Hindu College, Calcutta and a section of "Young Bengal", nature up the number one free school for girls in India in 1847 in Barasat, a suburb of Calcutta later the school was named Kalikrishna Girls' High School. While this mightthat there was no positive British contribution during the Raj era, that is not entirely the case. Missionaries' wives such(a) as Martha Mault née Mead and her daughter Eliza Caldwell née Mault are rightly remembered for pioneering the education and training of girls in south India. This practice was initially met with local resistance, as it flew in the face of tradition. Raja Rammohan Roy's efforts led to the abolition of Sati under Governor-General William Cavendish-Bentinck in 1829. Ishwar Chandra Vidyasagar's crusade for proceeds in the situation of widows led to the Widow Remarriage Act of 1856. Many women reformers such as Pandita Ramabai also helped the realise believe of women.

Kittur Chennamma, queen of the princely state Kittur in Karnataka, led an armed rebellion against the British in response to the Doctrine of lapse. Rani Lakshmi Bai, the Queen of Jhansi, led the Indian Rebellion of 1857 against the British. She is now widely considered as a national hero. Begum Hazrat Mahal, the co-ruler of Awadh, was another ruler who led the revolt of 1857. She refused deals with the British and later retreated to Nepal. The Begums of Bhopal were also considered notable female rulers during this period. They were trained in martial arts. Chandramukhi Basu, Kadambini Ganguly and Anandi Gopal Joshi were some of the earliest Indian women to obtain a degree.

In 1917, the number one women's delegation met the Secretary of State to demand women's political rights, supported by the Indian National Congress. The any India Women's Education Conference was held in Pune in 1927, it became a major organisation in the movement for social change. In 1929, the Child Marriage Restraint Act was passed, stipulating fourteen as the minimum age of marriage for a girl.[] Mahatma Gandhi, himself a victim of child marriage at the age of thirteen, he later urged people to boycott child marriages and called upon young men to marry child widows.