The Indian Review August 1926 A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Discussion of all Topics of Interest

A great portion of the book is taken up with the women who figure in the Ramayana and Mahabharata and though to those who have read the original Sanskrit the descritions and remarks may appear not to do full justice to the beauties of the originals the author has given us a very fair description of the women of the period and the part they played. [...] Woman in the social economy of the East y no `means " Fades from the view A cypher of man's changeless sum Of lust past present and to come" and the progress of Indians social and political must in a large measure depend on the direction which reforms take as regards the position of the sexes and the part woman plays in the social and domestic economy of the race. [...] It is difficult to except that the ancient ideals will remain unchanged by long and constant association with the modern progressive tendencies of the West and the demand for independence and equality both social and political; and the only question is how the change is to be effected so as to retain all that is good in the past and avoid changes unsuited to the genius of the nation. [...] The spirit of 62 the Western culture is we think now digesed by the East and the duty of the leaders in thought is to teach the people to effect a happy fusion of the two cultures. [...] The Conference was called The Parliament of Youth " because the chief subject of consideration was the dicussion on the results of the world-wide iquiry into the mind of youth which has been conducted during the past two years in all parts of the world.