History of Women Education in India

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About the Book Women's education in India plays a very important role in the overall development of the country. It not only helps in the development of half of the human resources but in improving the quality of life at home and outside.

Educated women not only tend to promote the education of their girl children but also can provide better guidance to all their children. Moreover, educated women can also help in the reduction of the infant mortality rate and the growth of the population.

Although in the Vedic period, women had access to education in India, they gradually lost this right. However, in the British period, there was a revival of interest in women's education in India. During this period, various socio-religious movements led by eminent persons like Raja Ram Mohan Roy, and Iswar Chandra Vidyasagar emphasized women's education in India.

Introduction To write a book on the education of Indian women is a prosaic action impelled by Western devotion to matter of fact; it would be more fitting to write of the veil of mystic romance which has hidden the sorrows and the joys of Indian women from the world; of the Rajput women who issued from the royal zenana to lead a forlorn cause against their country's foes, or passed by hundreds to a fiery death rather than touch the conqueror's hand; of those whose intrigue and strategy were redeemed from false- ness by underlying devotion to others, of those who rose above the symbols of ritual and worship to the true perception of the Divine in life.