• In the home, women tend the shrine, and carry out rituals
for welfare of family. Often, it is women who nurture
children in Hindu/Indian values and norms, who transmit the
Tradition.
• “Women constitute a separate subculture in the regional
societies of India; they interact among themslelves in a
domain where they are householders and men are simply guests
… the world of women is separate from … men through women
are not necessarily subordinated to men, nor are they inferior of less equal” (p 144)
• West tends to judge women’s status by their public role.
• Indira Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi.
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