Abstract

The proposed paper is related to women’s struggle and movements in India from history to the present. Women now occupy a prominent position on the political agenda thanks in large part to the women’s movements. The fight for national liberation coincided with the advancement of the women’s movement. As a direct result of the contribution that women made to the independence movement, they were able to secure constitutional protections for equal rights and adult suffrage for all. It is, however, true that the majority of Indian women’s lives have not significantly changed as a result of these constitutional protections in terms of social and material transformation. Basically, women’s movement is emerged due to patriarchy and gender inequality in the society. Thus, the main objective of the women’s movement is prohibited the patriarchy and gender inequality within the family and outside the family. But, It’s very sad that, in the spite of many women’s movements, patriarchy is still exists in India. This paper’s objective is to study and examine the various factors that contributed to the birth and rise of the Indian women’s movement. Historically, visages of ‘sati’ and tales of mass foeticide represent the backwardness of Indian women. On the other hand, India has a rich history of reform movements that took place in the 19th and 20th centuries. Essentially, this history is directly related to modern-day women. In this paper, we will demonstrate how the Indian women’s movement is changing their face from pre-independence to post-independence and post-independence to the contemporary era.