Vol. 9, Issue 2, Part B (2023)

An attempt is being made in this paper to know the educational status of women education in India in a historical purpose. An analysis of the socio-religious set-up and the women role in the socio-religious and political set-up of the ancient, medieval and modern India is very comprehensively done to know the Indian perspective of women education in socio-cultural and historic sense. A special emphasis is given to analysis the level and status of women education in Vedic India and the impact of the foreigner invasions and Islamic rule during the medieval period. The impact of the western education, philanthropist efforts of Christian missionary and British bureaucracy and the responses of the Indian reformist and their impact on the education level of the India women are duly focused upon in this paper. The analysis of the policies, programmes and the special initiatives of the government of India is done in a comprehensive manners, in nutshell this paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the issues and challenges to which the women education has been facing in India from the Medieval period.