Volume II,Issue IV, March 2026
Volume-II, Issue-IV, March, 2026 |
Received: 24.03.2026 | Accepted: 26.03.2026 | ||
Published Online: 31.03.2026 | Page No: | ||
DOI: 10.69655/atmadeep.vol.2.issue.04W. | |||
বিশ শতকে
প্রচলিত অবরোধ প্রথার বিরুদ্ধে শিক্ষিত মহিলাদের কণ্ঠস্বর: ‘ভারত-মহিলা’ পত্রিকায়
অনন্যা সামন্ত, গবেষক, বর্ধমান বিশ্ববিদ্যালয়, পশ্চিমবঙ্গ, ভারত |
Ananya Samanta, Research Scholar, The University of Burdwan, West Bengal, India | ||
ABSTRACT | ||
The magazine
‘Bharat-Mahila’ was published in the month of Bhadra in the year 1312 of the
Bengali calendar. It was an illustrated monthly magazine, edited by Sarajubala
Dutta.
In the early twentieth
century, although women’s education had begun to spread among girls, many women
were still confined within the inner quarters of their homes. They could
neither live according to their own wishes nor step outside the house. They often
compared their condition to that of a bird trapped in a cage.
At that time, a sense of
awareness about their situation began to grow among some educated women. They
started to realize that they had the right to live life on their own terms.
This realization awakened in them a desire for freedom. Through their writings,
they repeatedly expressed the many hardships and sufferings they endured while
living within the inner quarters.
In this essay, I have
discussed how educated women protested against this state of confinement within
the inner quarters, known as the purdah system. | ||
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