Twilight of the Sultanate c18.s6.9

c18.s6.9

Again, although no society progresses only with the improvement of men, still there was no effort made to uplift the status of women. Nay, in the sixteenth century Tulsīdās advocates a very uncharitable attitude towards them. Although emphasis on family life was a step forward, and although the Maharashtra saints did help raise the status of women in the south, in the north their plight hardly seems to have attracted the attention of the reformers.