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Write short essay of not more than 200 words on: Position of women in the Rigvedic society.

  • UPSC 1988
  • Aryans and Vedic Period

Nineteenth and early-twentieth-century reformist and nationalist historians projected a "golden age" onto Rigvedic women — citing goddesses, women hymn-composers, and assembly participation to counter colonial claims of Indian backwardness. Later scholarship, shifting focus from an isolated "status of women" question to the study of gender relations embedded in kinship, marriage, and ritual, offers a more…

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