Patriarchy In Ancient India

Tradition:
Now, first of all I would like to draw a brief structure of the so called
“Traditional Patriarchy”, which will help us to make a sense of the question how to overcome the Traditional Patriarchy and to answer it.
Traditional Patriarchy in Indian context goes back as earlier as 1000 B.C., when the Vedas were being drafted. In Indian Tradition, patriarchy always found a dominant place. And the most importantly all these things were done scripturally, which gave birth to a male dominant society. “Male” got a place of the lord of home, chief of the tribe, the commander of military expeditions, the king of the state, and the story didn’t end there, as he occupied each and every source of economy and put it in his hand whether as trader

Men used to run miles away for arranging meals for himself and his family. They struggled hard physically, which got them a stronger physique. Similarly due to stay in one place since early times, doing no physical hard work, women became weaker and weaker physically, not only in themselves but also in comparison with men

Men tried to interpret this change in character, as natural, and the trend became rigid to more rigid that physically hardship belonged to men; on the contrary physically weakness to women.
That is the whole story behind this whole phenomenon. The very fact is physical hard work. Both can overcome each other in terms of physical strength.
Such is seen that female body is weaker than that of male, and that is no new thing to be discussed on. But the physical weakness does not belong to her as negativity. That does not mean that the more physical strength one has, the more privileges one would enjoy. This is also a fact that all human being can never be equal in physical strength. Physical strength should not be the standard of justice.
Dependence on Male:
Historically, once a woman had to stay in one place in order to take care of children, she also had to be dependent upon male partner (whether father, brother or husband) for basic needs, which culminated only her further reliance on male for other decisions and affairs. That was where society was