The Journal of the National Indian Association in Aid of Social Progress in India January 1882

At the Meeting held a few weeks ago a report of which appears in the present number of oui Journal the speakers strongly insisted in reference to effort of the Association to promote education of women in India on the importance of adhering to this principle. [...] The education of native women is not contrary to the Hindoo religion but the advantages of their education are in no way. acknewledaed by the people of India and this is only the result of absolute ignorance. [...] mission and some of the medical missionaries are doctors and others women of culture and sound though limited practical knowledge of the elements of Anatomy and Hygiene who are enabled to bring healing to the bodies of many poor suffering women and to dispel some of the densest mists of ignorance as to the care and preservation of health yet it is not to Zenana or any other missionary socie [...] Private and missionary enterprise may do something ; but con sidering the vastness of the territory and population the poverty the habits and the general circumstances of the country there is but one way of affording adequate medical relief to the women of India. [...] Who does not see how far-reaching the issues to which such a public service of medical women might ultimately lead ? Without incurring the suspicion of invading the Zenana in order to tamper with the religious convictions of the women an agency would be at work which would carry the lights of higher civilization into the home itself which must in time modify all the conditions of existence of na