GENDER JUSTICE IN INDIA DURING PRE-INDEPENDENCE ERA

It can be said that in India the word “Gender Justice” as a pre-inde­pendence concept was not in vogue in the 19th or 20th century. Though the concept had not evolved in the real sense of the term there prevailed a consciousness about it among the social reformers of the day. In fact several issues pertaining to women such as child marriage early widowhood and inequality of treat­ment in social life were treated as social problems. In order to root out the evils reformative measures were brought in gradu­ally. These social reform measures formed the basis for the author to write this bookon Gender Justice.