About the Book: Women in Contemporary India: Traditional Images and Changing
Roles
"The problem of social change in the largely traditional societies of South
Asia has been the focus of wide ranging studies by sociologists, yet the
implications of change for the place of women in the social, cultural, economic
and political life of these societies in transition is a neglected field of
sociological inquiry. The Report of the Committee on the Status of Women in
India notes the 'paucity of data on important social and economic variables
affecting the presonality structure and patterns of social behaviour of Indian
women. This landmark book offers a fresh perspective