Indian Women
Liberating the Women of India
Flora Annie Steel and Annie Besant were educated Englishwomen who live in India at the turn of the century. Being Englishwomen, they thought themselves superior to Indian women. To them the women of India need to be instructed on the correct way to run their households and the need for them to seek education. Through their very informative works, they portrayed the “suitable” (according to the English way of life) way to live life as a woman in India.
Annie Steel promoted that a woman’s home should be well managed and ran with much care. She should continuously be involved in how the servants ran her home. Obviously speaking to the upper class women who live in India, she explained the and Indians servant was “by nature untrained and dirty; women must stay on top of the them, guiding them.” She explained that is was the woman’s duty to give intelligible orders because the Indian servants were “as a child in everything except......
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