• Ranjan Baisya

Domestic violence against women is a vital theme of the Indian history. Though, the women of India played an important role throughout the ages for the sustainable development of the human civilization but they were not beyond the bad practice of the domestic violence. Household violence created a lot of miseries and sufferings in the lives of many women. In accordance with A.S. Altekar, an eminent historian, the female baby was not welcomed in the patriarchal society of ancient India, So, it seems the a girl was to tolerate the domestic apathy at her first birth’s cry. During the period of the Indus valley civilization, the lady deities were worshipped by the contemporary Indus dwellers. Therefore, the women in that civilization occupied an immense familiar prestige. That’s why, the Indus valley civilization was supposed as the women centric civilization. In the Vedic civilization, this picture of the women status was changed. Father or the male elder of the family was the principal authority of the family. He had an enormous influence on the rest of the family members. The female member got no exemptions of his authority. Thus, there started the patriarchy in the Vedic civilization. This discriminatory social continuation of patriarchy influenced the domestic lives of the Indian women throughout the ancient, medieval and modern ages in various ways. Numerous lives of the countless women became the innocent victims at the hands of the cruel domestic offenders. Swami Vivekananda, the great humanist thinker observed that two sins were in India. One was the system of caste-ism and other was the oppression on the females. Even, the social reformers made the efforts to put an end to the in human customs of the domestic and social violence imposed on the ladies. Despite it, household offence had been going on for a long time. After the independence of India a large number of women became an easy prey in the event of the partition. Violence on numerous women was going on in the form of physical harassment and abduction etc. on the eve of the partition of India and Pakistan. Independent India proceeded ahead after making a successful solution of this problem. But domestic violence yet was going on by some mentally detorted persons in India, So, abortion, honor killing, early marriage, dowry system, purdah system, domestic denial to the right of many women to education and property etc contaminated the good and healthy domestic environment of the society. Recent outbreak of the Corona pandemic added a fuel to the domestic violence and made the problem more complicated. Like many men, a lot of women lost their jobs and they were helplessly and unwillingly compelled to stay at their homes at the proximity of the domestic offenders by without seeking any other shelter for their living

Domestic violence, honor killing, dowry system, Swami Vivekananda, human civilization.

"Domestic Violence against Women", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 9, page no.932-936, September 2020, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2009424.pdf

"Domestic Violence against Women", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.7, Issue 9, page no. pp932-936, September 2020, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2009424.pdf