the Bhakti period.

At a time when intellectuals and activists were primarily concerned with easily identified/ostensible atrocities
against women, she isolated problems and broadened the scope of analysis to include the entire ideological fabric of the
patriarchal society. Women everywhere, she implored, are similarly oppressed,” this Feminism in India column goes on to add.

Nearly a century before Simone De Beauvoir published The Second Sex, a foundational text of modern feminism, India had
Tarabai Shinde’s Stree Purush Tulana, an essential treatise on feminist thought.