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Tradition and Liberation - The Hindu Tradition in the Indian Women's Movement (Hardcover)
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Tradition and Liberation - The Hindu Tradition in the Indian Women's Movement (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Asian Religion
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This text examines the role of the Hindu tradition in the ideology
and methodology of the Indian Women's Movement. The book analyzes
the relationship between the Hindu tradition and the Indian Women's
Movement in order to demonstrate that members of the movement have
advanced different interpretations of the tradition, and hence that
they have had different reasons for and against appeal to Hindu
beliefs and values. Through a review of speeches and writings of
leading 19th- and 20th-century figures of the movement, the work
identifies positive as well as negative representations of the
tradition and its implications for women. Acordingly, it shows when
and why the movement has chosen either to offer a traditional
justification for its aims and activities or to eschew such a
justification in favour of an alternative rationale. The study
integrates an awareness of modern discourse about the position of
women in the Hindu tradition with an account of the Indian Women's
Movement. In so doing, it considers both how the Indian Women's
Movement has conceptualized the position of women in the Hindu
tradition and how the movement has challenged this position,
concentrating on reference to t
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