Role and Position of Women : An Exploration Through Rig-Veda

Authors

  • Dr. Nasreen Begum  Reader, Department of Ancient History, Culture and Archaeology, Hamidia Girls’ Degree College, (Constituent College of The University of Allahabad) Uttar Pradesh, India

Keywords:

Rig-Veda, systematic data

Abstract

The Position which women occupied in Hindu Society at the down of civilization during the Rig-Vedic age, is much better than what we ordinarily expect it to have been. The age of the Rig-Veda was from c. 2500 to c. 1500 B. C. The source materials for a study of the life and position of women in the Rig- Vedic age are very scanty, hence any observation is, in most cases, bound to be based more on indirect evidence like literary allusions, than on direct and systematic data. The procedure, therefore, that can be followed with best advantage is to survey the subject from the various points of view, from which conclusions may profitably be drawn.

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2009-03-30

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Volume 1, Issue 1, Year-2007_14

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Dr. Nasreen Begum "Role and Position of Women : An Exploration Through Rig-Veda" International Journal of Scientific Research in Science and Technology(IJSRST), Online ISSN : 2395-602X, Print ISSN : 2395-6011,Volume 1, Issue 1, pp.81-91, Year-2007_14.