FUTURE OF INDIAN WOMEN

THE future of Indian women was discussed at a meeting of the Best India Association yesterday when Mrs. N.C. Sen read a paper on that question. She said the position of women was much better now than it was 50 years ago, but yet they were more or less at the mercy of their men. There was still much to be done before they would be on the same footing as men. Mrs. Besant, who took part in the discussion, said up to about 150 years ago there was not much difference in the opportunities education gave in India to boys and girls, but English education had caused a reverence and had shut out women from public life. Women had fallen into the background  and had lost their position as counsellors of the men which they filed in earlier years.