Indian society has been affected and impacted by many forces, factors and processes like modernisation, liberalisation, globalisation and technological revolution. Yet, the core of the society tends to have remained primordial in general and patriarchal in particular. One unequivocal and almost universal instance of the abominable hierarchy is the subjugated position and status of Indian women, in generic sense. Whereas males enjoy elevated and incontrovertible authority, women are shunted to ignominious and subservient status, where males rule the roost, women languish with constricted and preordained sphere of action and autonomy. The social orthodoxy affords women hardly any opportunity to education, employment and self-aggrandisement. They are more like ‘fragrant flowers’ to be nurtured and protected within fortified confines of home and hearth.
