AN INDIAN BARRISTER ON WOMEN.

White Ribbon, Volume 23, Issue 265, 18 July 1917, Page 9

AN INDIAN BARRISTER ON WOMEN.

The following concluding words of an address given before the l nited Provinces Educational Conference, 1916, by Cri Prakasa, Barrister-at-Law, shows that advanced F.istern and Western thought .ire not so far apart in regard to the position of women: “If woman’s part is so great in creation, it is equally great in the preservation of our kind. If we want to keep alive what is left as best in our Indian polity; if we want to save our social life from the vulgarisation that is creeping into it due to the lack of the staying influence of women; if we want to preserve the peace of our domestic hearths, already sadly violated; if we want our political life to be vigorous and effective, and not to be futile as it is, owing to the lack of the support of our women if we want all this, then let that element in human life which has helped so greatly in bringing us into being, let that element also help and guide in managing our public and private endeavours which are all for the one purpose of preserving our individual lives and the lives of the rac e. W ith woman’s help, support, and sympathy, man can do much; without it, man is helpless as helpless can be; and in the words of Sri K. G. Gupta: ‘ln the qualities of Indian womanhood, in the power of well-directed sac rifice and service, lies the assured hcqx* *f national regeneration/ ”