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.