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The Journal of the National Indian Association in Aid of Social Progress and Female Education in India October 1883

1883

The interest it has roused the liberality it has drawn forth and the silent influence it has exercised on the minds of those responsible for the medical education of women in India by proving to them unmistakably the great and widespread need of qualified women doctors to go about ministering to the sick and suffering of their own sex mark the Bombay scheme as something unprecedented in the hi [...] Readers of the Journal have had an opportunity of studying for themselves the text of the Lieutenant-Governor's noble vindication of the right of women to share in the educational advantages of the Calcutta Medical College and it is an-... [...] The education that is calculated to promote useful culture in this country must ioculate the pupil with the secular influences and principles of the virgin civilisation of the West in order that they may coalesce with and modify the outcome of the old civilisation of the East so as to reanimate and rejuvenate the latter and thereby lead to that silver wedding " which was so feelingly allude [...] The progress of education among men and of modern enlightenment the undue expansion of a. joint family in the progress of time and the natural desire of women to rule at home have been and are steadily disintegrating the joint family and developing the modern notion that it is the husband and wife and not the joint family that ought to be the social as well as the legal unit. [...] This conflict may be avoided by directing attention in a general way to the importance of practical knowledge of such duties and enabling the girls under education to realise in a liberal spirit the principle underlying the ancient Hindu law that they are to join and assist their husbands in the discharge of their duty and to include in the conception of duty social and other duties of the fami
government politics public policy
Pages
66
Published in
United Kingdom
SARF Document ID
sarf.120043
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-ii unknown view
Medical Women for India
561-573 Frances Hoggan view
Mr. Justice Muttusawmi Aiyar on Female Education
574-585 unknown view
China
585-597 Rowland Hamilton view
Reviews
598-601 unknown view
Shornalata : A Tale of Hindu Life
602-615 Tarak Ganguli view
The Bristol Industrial School
615-619 unknown view
Indian Intelligence
619-620 unknown view
Personal Intelligence
620-620 unknown view