The position of women in Indian life / by Her Highness the Maharani of Baroda and S.M. Mitra.

  • Chimnabai II, Maharani of Baroda.
Date:
1911
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Credit: The position of women in Indian life / by Her Highness the Maharani of Baroda and S.M. Mitra. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    State is prepared to lead the way in this direction by offering two scholarships to ladies, one to a Hindu and the other to a Mahomedan, to enable and encourage them to carry out my project. What struck me at the Allahabad Exhibition was the want of women instructors. If there were women lecturers to teach pur da ladies the advantages of exhibitions and the methods of organizing them, dozens ot small exhibitions would spring up in all parts of India, and would do a great deal of good. It is evident that my countrywomen are beginning to take a keen interest in these exhibitions, for at Allahabad I noticed that numbers of purda ladies attended at the usual times, and no doubt profited largely by the displays of artistic and industrial work which were on view. Such visits cannot fail to have an immensely educative effect, and their results might be made still more lasting if some system of explaining the various objects and the different processes of manufacture were set on foot. Such operations as sugar - making, juggery-making from the date-palm tree, rosa grass distillation for the manufacture of per- fumes, sericulture, the working of a printing press, the making of glass, gold and silver enamels, pencils and nibs, matches, hosiery, carpets, and other textile industries, which were all on view at the Navsari Exhibition, opened last April by the Maharaja of Baroda, would