Compiled by London swaminathan

Date:18 July 2016

Post No. 2982

Time uploaded in London :– 14-05

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Following piece is an interesting excerpt from a 100-year-old book written by a Muslim scholar: –

Source: Life and Labour of the People of India by Abdullah Yusuf Ali, Barrister at Law, London, 1907

‘Woman, said Keshub Chunder Sen, has been defined as an adjective agreeing with the noun man.  I should rather say that man is a noun in the objective case, governed by the verb woman. This humorous simile may be read with the simile of the poet of the Veda when he compares the brightness of the God of fire to the shining of a woman in her home.

Sita, in a celebrated passage of Valmiki’s Ramayana, says to her husband,

“The world shall wake no care in me;

My only care be truth to thee”

If we apply this noble saying in a reciprocal sense, and base the solidarity of human society on the truth of man to woman, and of woman to man, many of life’s riddles would be solved –many of life’s difficulties would disappear.

I may be something of a dreamer, but I hope and trust that society in India, — as elsewhere — will recognise the place that is woman’s , not as a result of conflict and strife– not as a victory after the dust of battle– but as the natural symbol of Peace, Harmony, Union, Devotion, and Love.”

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American, French English Women

“The Americans have a saying that a woman is independent before marriage in England, after marriage in France, and at all times in America. From an Indian point of view, it would probably be expressed thus; that a woman in her husband in England, and in her brother in France, while in America, she has to fight for her own hand against all the world.

The Indian woman is always protected — by the father in childhood, by the husband in youth, and by the sons in old age. A woman, says Manu, should never left unprotected. Whatever degree of freedom and initiative she had in her mother’s house is lost to her in her new home. There she is the daughter in law. The mother in law is with us the chief butt of satire and comic poetry in what country she is not? But in India the mother in law is the husbands mother, not the wife’s; and the amenities between her and her son’s wife are accentuated by the fact that he former is so much older than the latter and the two have to live together, with scarcely any influence on the part of the boy husband”.

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Woman is not made for work!

“The fact that the woman is not supposed, according to our social ideas, to earn her daily bread.

For the legal profession a very energetic and all but success full attempt was made by one of the most brilliant of India’s women, Miss Cornelian Sorabjee. After a distinguished college career in India she went to Oxford and studied law. She passed rats all her legal examination s, but unfortunately the High Courts in India did not see their way permit her to practise as an advocate on account of her sex. The loss of the legal profession was the gain of literature, for she has since published two charming books containing sketches of India n life. But her legal knowledge was not acquired in vain; how services have been requisitioned by the Bengal Government. She is acting as the legal adviser to the women under Courts of Wards. Her position is one of great authority and exceptional difficulty, for she is the interpreter between two languages, vulgarly held to be incompatible with one another — the language of a woman’s wish, and the language of the law but the wit of a refined woman may be trusted to translate from the one to the other, with a full combination of grace, tact, and business acumen”.

Written over 100 years ago by a Muslim Scholar; pictures re from Hare Krishna Rath Yatra in London held on 17th July 2016; taken by london swaminathan.

–Subham–