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INTRODUCTION.
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The condition of the Hindu female in those days
was truly pitiable. Education among females was un-
known. Kulinism, Polygamy, and every day oppression
made the life of the Hindu female unbearable. For
an authentic account of their condition, we refer the
reader to Ram Mohun Roy's second essay on the
burning of widows. The Hindu society with Caster
Polygamy, Kulinism, Suttee, Infanticide and other evils
was rotten to its core. Morality was at a very low ebb.
Men spent their time in vice and idleness, and in social
broils and party quarrels.
As to education among the people, of what even
the Muktubs could impart, there was but little. What
little learning there was, was confined to a few Brahmins,
and it was in the main a vain and useless learning.
Ignorance and superstition reigned supreme over the
length and breadth of the country. There was darkness
over the land, and no man knew when it would be
dispelled.
In the political world also there was much disorder.
With the administration of criminal justice still in the
hands of Kazis, the civil courts in disorder, the most
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11
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20
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47
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639
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517
463
The condition of the Hindu female in those days
was truly pitiable. Education among females was un-
known. Kulinism, Polygamy, and every day oppression
made the life of the Hindu female unbearable. For
an authentic account of their condition, we refer the
reader to Ram Mohun Roy's second essay on the
burning of widows. The Hindu society with Caster
Polygamy, Kulinism, Suttee, Infanticide and other evils
was rotten to its core. Morality was at a very low ebb.
Men spent their time in vice and idleness, and in social
broils and party quarrels.
As to education among the people, of what even
the Muktubs could impart, there was but little. What
little learning there was, was confined to a few Brahmins,
and it was in the main a vain and useless learning.
Ignorance and superstition reigned supreme over the
length and breadth of the country. There was darkness
over the land, and no man knew when it would be
dispelled.
In the political world also there was much disorder.
With the administration of criminal justice still in the
hands of Kazis, the civil courts in disorder, the most