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Evaluate the status of women in the Gupta period as compared to the pre-Gupta era.
- UPSC 2023
- Guptas, Vakatakas and Vardhanas
The Gupta age is conventionally celebrated as a "golden age" of art, science and administration, but this label sits uneasily against the record of women's status in the period, which shows a marked narrowing of rights and autonomy when measured against the early Vedic baseline — even as a handful of elite women achieved individual…
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- The Pre-Gupta Baseline: Vedic Openness, Post-Vedic Closure
- The Gupta Period: Patriarchal Consolidation
- Elite Exceptions and the Limits of Generalization
- An Assessment
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