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Violence against women is not a new or recent phenomenon women have been the victims of violence all through the age, in all societies, cultures regions or religious communities in the world.

Violence against women can be viewed in the historical perspective, for it is to a large extent, linked to her status in society. In the Vedic period, Indian women enjoyed a relatively comfortable position. Gradually violence against them began to be practised; the doors of educational, economic, social, political and cultural opportunities were gradually closed for them.

Even their personal freedom in respect of movement, diet, dress, marriage, etc. comes to be curtailed. Every effort was made to make them meek. Women also began to be enslaved and prostituted.

Various obligations restrictions and regulations were imposed on them and different penalties and punishments were prescribed if women violated them. Thus violence against them came to have a societal sanction.

Worse still, a widows life began to be denied from around the sixth century A.D. when the practice of sati was introduced. Wife-beating got religious and social sanction with the Matsya Purana authorising the husband to bet his erring wife with rope or a split bamboo.

In the medieval period, when two measure cultures-Islam and Hinduism-encountered and interacted with each other, violence against women increased manifold. It included new elements.

Even the purdah system which isolated the woman from the rest of the world was after all violence against woman. Girls began to be married off at a tender age, and in certain communities new-born baby girls began to be killed by the parents themselves.

Polygamy took strong roots in the society, and a womans right to the unshared love of her husband started vanishing.Forced marriages becames common.

The British Government by and large remained indifferent to the violence against women. After independence violence against women has only grown in all its dimensions.

Indeed a few more forms of violence like female foeticide have developed. Dowry system has been with India society for a long time. But todays growing materialism has increased its severity which results in a great number of bride-killings every year.

Today violence against women in India has assumed an alarming proportion. According to one estimate, there are about thirty specific forms of violence being committed against women from the pre-natal stage to their death.

Such forms include foeticide, infanticide, medicine neglect, deprivation of educational opportunities, child marriages, abuse of the girl child, forced marriages, harassment, wife-battering, bride-burning, etc. one can see these forms of violence in his or her own surroundings. These are also reported in newspapers and other media very frequently.

If she is uneducated, unskilled and economically dependent, a woman seldom has any choice but to bear all the atrocities heaped on her. And a man, fully cognizant of this weakness, shows his power through more violence.

The violence continues unabated because no social actions have been forthcoming. Legislation exists, but is seldom implemented with care or readiness. Indeed those very persons in charge of protecting a woman assault her and humiliate her.

It is not just actual physical violence that is used to intimidate women. Even the threat of it is enough cause for mental agony, and that too is a form of violence.

Violence against women is further complicated by other factors in society. Caste, religious, communal and class factors also play a role in the violence against women.

The effect of violence on women, unfortunately not getting the attention it deserves, is not confined to the women victims It affects, directly and indirectly, the immediate family in which the mother is violently treated either develops violent reactions against the father or is himself inured to violence and gets brutalised.

Hence, the remedy for violence is no very far to seek. It is within ourselves. This will be the greatest fight ever fought. But this fight is not between men and women, between men and men; this fights between good and evil a fight between human and inhuman. If we men or women are not ready to participate in this fight we will be doomed.

Women must organise themselves in groups and raise a collective voice against a system that turns a blind eye towards. If not actually condones, violent acts against women. Every public minded person and the media must contribute to spreading a civilised attitude in society.

United effort can certainly create a public opinion and outcry against situations when women are humiliated by public officials or others with their connivance- this has been witnessed recently in the Saharanpur incident.

Right thinking men too have to be drawn into the movement against violence. Attitudinal change in society is required if women are to live in the world as free human beings without fear.