The Impact of Sudha Murthy's Work on Ancient Devdasi Tradition

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Vasantha Pillai, Dr. Manisha Dwivedi

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A woman plays a vital role in every historical era from the Vedic civilization to the present stage of the world. However, the status of women has not been changed to date. She is been portrayed as weak and soft both emotionally and in physical nature soul with the human nature, whereas men are considered to be strong and hard by dominating the women. Even though the world has grown with trending technology and science it is only one thing that has not changed is the ancient traditional practice. However, the portrayal of women has been broken by many feminists and the women from Purana like Seetha in Ramayana going for vanavasa with Rama through their ability to overcome the hardness in their day-to-day life. In the ancient days when kings ruled their kingdom, they gave more importance to the Art and dance forms which were also the domination powers held by them against women. India is one such country for all multi-cultured nations with all kinds of the practice of old tradition. One of them is the Devdasi system which has been practiced since the period of the seventh century in the region of Cholas, Cheras, and the Pandya’s. In these practices, women were treated as female slaves of God for kings and these practices existed in one of the southern parts of Karnataka until one powerful woman stood up against it by making revolutionary literature. Sudha Murthy a prominent and courageous social worker broke the gender disparity and practices through are spending time with them and making them come out of it for a normal life in flying colors. This was an evidential proof in one of her books named “Three Thousand Stitches”. Let us see in detail, how women have come across the barriers of crossing the evils in the society from ancient practises.

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