Law and the Status of Women in India

An attempt is made to analysis the impact of the legislative and legal measure on the social change and the status of women in India. A historical analysis of the development of the principles of the rule of law and their impact on the patriarchal social set-up of the Indian society especially on the status of women is done with the examples and facts. This paper very vividly holds that the principles of the rule of law which has been developed with many exception to the basic principles of the by the imperial power in India had initiated a positive change in the status of women. The journey of the development of the principles of the rule of law and the principles of the equal citizenship and equal rights has been paved with the making of Indian Constitution which has been further developed by the special legislative measures after the Independence.