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Updated: May 1, 2025
Will co-education not work in India? To a certain limited extent it has. Rukkubai, with her too brief years of freedom, proved its possibility.
There being then no women's college in her part of India, she entered a Government University in a large city, where there were a few other women students. Western standards of freedom prevailed and were accepted by men and women. Rukkubai shared in social as well as academic life.
The husband was not only the holder of a University degree similar to her own, but a zealous social reformer, eloquent in his advocacy of women's freedom. Life promised well for Rukkubai. A year or two later a friend visited her behind the purdah, with the doors of the world shut in her face.
The zeal of the reforming husband could not stand against the petty persecutions of the older women of the family. "I wish," said Rukkubai, "that I had never known freedom. Now I have known and lost." Yet not all reformers are such. There are an increasing number whose deeds keep pace with their words.
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