WOMEN FREEDOM MOVEMENT IN INDIA: A ROLE OF GANDHI

Abstract

For the period of freedom Struggle in the motherland, women were not staying at the back. The role of women in freedom struggle is extremely significant and they also participated in Indian struggle for Independence. The Women in the brigade were certain the similar preparation seeing that it was given to men also. Still their uniform was comparable to the men warriors. In keeping with this tradition, burden of tears and toils of the long years of struggle for India's freedom was borne by the wives, mothers, and daughters, silently and cheerfully. The programme of self-imposed poverty and periodical jail going was possible only because of the willing co-operation of the family women. In the various resistance movements in the villages, the illiterate women played this passive but contributory part as comrades of their men folk. This article reviews and analyses the role of Gandhi in drawing a large number of women into the mainstream of the freedom movement. Gandhi's ideas about women and their role in public life was a departure from those of the 19th century reformers. He saw women as a potential force in the struggle to build a new social order. He consciously attempted to articulate connections between private and public life in order to bring women into the struggle. Andin this papers discuss on Gandhiji's thought on Women uplitment, contribution of women in India and present Position of women in India etc, As well as discuss on Gandhiji's view of women participation in politics. After Gandhi which position of women in India also focus in this paper.