The considerable interest currently being expressed in women and religion has thrown down an important challenge; the need to see women not merely as the passiv

This book accounts for the origin and evolution of the nature and roles of women within the Hindu belief system. It explains how the idea of the goddess has bee

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There are some monographs that deal with the position of Hindu women in particular periods of Indian history, but no work has as yet been written which reviews