Social Violence In India

History
There is a very famous Sanskrit adage, “Yatra naryantu pujante, ramante tatra devataha”, which means, “Where woman is worshipped, there resides the God”. A society develops and grows, if women in that society grow, if they equally take part in the progress of the nation, because they are the matrix of social life.
In India, till the advent of Turks women enjoyed great freedom and prestige in society. But due to socio-economic and political exigencies and the impact of alien ideologies, various restrictions developed and women were burdened with unwanted taboos and restrictions.
If we go back into past, women were considered as part of culture. If she has a particular conviction or acts in certain way, it is due to the pattern that

It goes beyond the dictionary meaning of the term ‘violence’ as merely the exercise of physical force so as to inflict injury or damage to persons or property both spiritual and non-spiritual. The “illegality” and “illegitimacy” of social violence will differ on situation norms and social context. There has been overlapping between “force” and “violence”, “legitimate” and “illegal violence”, between “violence” on the one hand and “discrimination” and “oppression” perpetuated on female folks as a group. For all these reasons, ‘social violence’ is roughly defined as the illegal use of physical, mental and social concern or use of threat for personal or group ends reflected broadly in our traditional social structure and present day developmental processes. Here the coercive aspects, threats for harm and the discriminating and oppressive aspects are included. Thus, the social violence means illegal use of force or threats for use of such force by the patriarchal social order and their agents against women folks in general for perpetuating the goals of that group for subjugating women physically, socially and psychologically (Misra, 2007).
Violence against women is global and widespread and is tolerated as a social phenomenon, in institution and custom and,

Even today, various forms of violence against women are prevalent in our society, though many cases remain unreported due to cultural norms, apathy or ignorance. In the last four decades, there has been an alarming increase in the incidence of violence within and outside the family. Today, we hear more about wife beating, dowry deaths, and sexual crimes. Over the years, the nature of domestic violence has changed, now it has assumed following