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Synopsis The position assigned to women during the period of Brahmanas is significant in that the need of women for religious and social welfare first began to take a clear shape. Women had significant part to role whenever ceremonies took place for bringing about a birth of a son or for conferring blessing on the progeny. Most of the women today are caught in the throes of traditionalistic orientation and seek refuge in the historical symbolism of 'motherhood'. The great majority of illiterate women of India are unready for modernisation. Woman have yet to come forward to take advantage of the privileges given to women belonging to schedules castes, schedules tribes and other backward classes.It rests with the women of India and more especially with women of the rising generation to see what sort of influence they want to cast on the nation. Today, we are a free nation and the atmosphere--social, economic, political--is most conducive for the development of women's potentialities. There is a greater scope for them to work in union for the growth of the nation, the creation of better citizens, the creation of a better atmosphere by making use of the tools of scientific development and spiritual knowledge