The Position of Women in Hindu Civilisation, from Prehistoric Times to the Present Day c5.4

c5.4

Importance of the subject, 1-3; girls relatively unwelcome, 3-7; protest against this tendency, 7-8; was there female infanticide? 8-10; education in Vedic and Upanishadic periods, 11-6; women authors, teachers, philosophers and doctors, 12-6; was there co-education? 16-7; games and recreations, 17-8; setback to education at *c.* 300 b. c. and its causes, 18-9; education during *c.* 100-1200 a. d., 19-22; fine and useful arts, 23-4, 26; military training, 24-5; education in Muslim period, 27-9; progress in the last 75 years, 29-30; some suggestions about the present-day problems of female education, 30-3.