The Political Institutions and Theories of the Hindus: A Study in Comparative Politics c9.s1.20

c9.s1.20

One need not read into all this a conscious anticipation in India of the theory adumbrated by Mill in his *Subjection of Women*. We are not confronting here the feminism of today, i. e. the economic independence and political enfranchisement of women such as are advocated by Bebel the German socialist in his classic on *Woman*. Rather, on the whole, the mind of the Hindu in regard to Private Law was, to all intents and purposes, not much distinct from that of the European.