Swami Vivekananda on Women

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  • R K Mission Institute of Culture, Col Park, Kolkata ,IN

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https://doi.org/10.24906/isc/2012/v26/i4SP/177466

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Swami Vivekananda was well aware of the position of women in India. In the Vedic period quite a few women of the upper caste even composed Vedic hymns the names of Maitreyi, Gargi, Apala, Ghosh, Viswabara, Khana are well-known. In the early Vedic period women enjoyed considerable freedom and were pivotal to the family and the social structure. Its nature was by and large matriarchal.

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2012-07-01

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Sengupta, P. (2012). Swami Vivekananda on Women. Indian Science Cruiser, 26(4), 16–17. https://doi.org/10.24906/isc/2012/v26/i4SP/177466

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