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Tarabai Shinde

Indian feminist of British India ()

Tarabai Shinde

Born&#;(UTC)

Buldhana, Berar Province, British India
(now in Maharashtra, India)

Died (aged&#;59&#;60)
NationalityIndian
Occupation(s)feminist, women's rights activist, writer
Known&#;forcriticising the social differences between men and women
Notable workStri Purush Tulana (A Comparison Between Women and Men) ()

Tarabai Shinde (–)[1] was a feminist activist who protested patriarchy and caste in 19th century India.

She is known for her published work, Stri Purush Tulana ("A Comparison Between Women and Men"), originally published in Marathi in The pamphlet is a critique of caste and patriarchy, and is often considered the first modern Indian feminist text.[2] It was very controversial for its time in challenging the Hindureligious scriptures themselves as a source of women's oppression, a view that continues to be controversial and debated today.[3] She was a member of Satyashodhak Samaj.

Early life and family

Born in Marathi Family in the year to Bapuji Hari Shinde in Buldhana, Berar Province, in present-day Maharashtra, she was a founding member of the Satyashodhak Samaj, Pune. Her father was a radical and head clerk in the office of Deputy Commissioner of Revenues, he also published a book titled, "Hint to the Educated Natives" in There was no girls' school in the area.

Tarabai was the only daughter who was taught Marathi, Sanskrit and English by her father. She also had four brothers.[4][5] Tarabai was married when quite young, but was granted more freedom in the household than most other Marathi wives of the time since her husband moved into her parents' home.[6]

Social work

Shinde was associate of social activists Jotirao and Savitribai Phule; both husband & wife and were a founding member of their Satyashodhak Samaj ("Truth Finding Community") organisation.

The Phules shared with Shinde an awareness of the separate axes of oppression that constitute gender and caste, as well as the intermeshed nature of the two.

"Stri Purush Tulana"

Tarabai Shindes popular literary work is "Stri Purush Tulana" .In her essay, Shinde criticised the social inequality of caste, as well as the patriarchal views of other activists who saw caste as the main form of antagonism in Hindu society.

According to Susie Tharu and K. Lalita, "Stri Purush Tulana is probably the first full fledged and extant feminist argument after the poetry of the Bhakti Period. But Tarabai's work is also significant because at a time when intellectuals and activists alike were primarily concerned with the hardships of a Hindu widow's life and other easily identifiable atrocities perpetrated on women, Tarabai Shinde, apparently working in isolation, was able to broaden the scope of analysis to include the ideological fabric of patriarchal society.

Biography of abraham lincoln books For every moment we remain silent, we conspire against our women. You are said to be completely impartial. The book analysed the tightrope women must walk between the "good woman" and the "prostitute". Woman is the best creation of God and she is most abused by men in the history.

Women everywhere, she implies, are similarly oppressed."

Stri Purush Tulana was written in response to an article which appeared in , in Pune Vaibhav, an orthodox newspaper published from Pune, about a criminal case against a young Brahmin widow, Vijayalakshmi in Surat, who had been convicted of murdering her illegitimate son for the fear of public disgrace and ostracism and sentenced to be hanged (later appealed and modified to transportation for life).[4][7][6] Having worked with upper-caste widows who were forbidden to remarry, Shinde was well aware of incidents of widows being impregnated by relatives.

The book analysed the tightrope women must walk between the "good woman" and the "prostitute". The book was printed at Shri Shivaji Press, Pune, in with copies at cost nine annas,[8] but hostile reception by contemporary society and press, meant that she did not publish again.[9] The work however was praised by Jyotirao Phule, a prominent Marathi social reformer, who referred to Tarabai as chiranjivini (dear daughter) and recommended her pamphlet to colleagues.

The work finds mention in the second issue of Satsar, the magazine of Satyashodhak Samaj, started by Jyotiba Phule in , however thereafter the work remained largely unknown till , when it was rediscovered and republished.[2]

See also

References

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  5. ^ abTharu, Susie J.; Ke Lalita (). Women Writing in India: B.C. to the Present (Vol. 1). Feminist Press. p.&#; ISBN&#;.
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  7. ^ abFeldhaus, Anne (). Images of women in Maharashtrian society.

    Biography of john f. kennedy: She helped the Phules start a school for Untouchable caste girls in By Asif Iqbal. Comment Reblog Subscribe Subscribed. The Phules shared an awareness of oppression in genders and the caste system with Shinde.

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  8. ^DeLamotte, Eugenia C.; Natania Meeker; Jean F. O'Barr (). "Tarabai Shinde". Women imagine change: a global anthology of women's resistance from B.C.E.

    Tarabai shinde biography of abraham lincoln for kids However, most women were in support of making the necessary beneficial changes to their society. Madras: Oxford UP, She had no children, a choice she made actively and defended in the face of a society in which a childless married woman was a travesty. However, Shinde did not focus simply of the oppression of Indian women; she believed that women everywhere were similarly oppressed.

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  9. ^ abGuha, Ramachandra (). Makers of Modern India. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. p.&#;
  10. ^Roy, Anupama (24 February ).

    Tarabai shinde biography of abraham lincoln author Tarabai Shinde. Let us rise in the moral power of womanhood; and give utterance to the voice of outraged mercy, insulted justice, eternal truth, mighty love and holy freedom. Categories Uncategorized. The style of the book is smooth and felicitous.

    "On the other side of society". The Tribune.

  11. ^Devarajan, P. (4 February ). "Poignant pleas of an Indian widow". Business Line.
  12. ^Anagol, Padma (). The emergence of feminism in India, –. Ashgate Publishing. p.&#; ISBN&#;.

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