About the Book: Women In Hindu Literature
A comprehensive and polemical study of the Hindu view of women, the present
study seeks to deconstruct, question and expose the phallogocentrism of
patriarchal metaphysics which pervades the entire corpus of Hindu literature on
the subject By to be free and respectable women is therefore urged in this study
to see through and reject once for all, the traditional Patriarchal game in
order to establish herself as a new centre of knowledge and power.