Papers on Indian Reform. The Women of India and What can be done for them

Muir referring to one of the hymn writers says " The general opinion of him poet's contemporaries in regard to the female sex appears to be intimated in the following words put into the mouth of Indra 33 17. [...] These attributes no doubt originate in the feelings which have pervaded the East unfavourable to the dignity of the female character ; but we are not to mistake the language of satire or the licentiousness of wit for truth or to suppose that the pictures which are thus given of the deprav; ity of women owe not much of their colouring to the malignity of men."* Books of Dlorals—The followingare a [...] " As She twig is bent the tree inclines " or as a Tamil proverb puts it " As is the thread lip& is the cloth ; as is the mother such is the child." Instruction in after-life often fails to counteract the evil of earlacquired bad habits."4.2 THE -WOMAN OE INDIA. [...] Married before she acquired the age of discrimination to a boy of whosesobaracter and conduct nothing could be mown she is &estranger to all virtnerof youth as to the benefits of liberal education.; knows no perickl of life between girlhood and womanhood and is a premature victim to family cares and to the vagaries of her husband. [...] The most blasphemous claim of the men is to be treated as the god of the women.