Urban Elites and the Regenerative Processes

Abstract

Women leaders in India are deeply aware of the fact that women in rural India are greatly in need of their mobilisation effort and of practicable suggestions to help improve not only their economic condition but their social status as well. Since more than two-thirds of the population of India lives in her villages, with limited exposure to the forces of modernisation and facilities for education, the task of the urban women elite is that much more difficult. Most of the urban-based women leaders are aware of those difficulties. But their problem is where and how to begin. The immensity of the problems of rural women, and their mind-boggling complexity, have discouraged many women leaders from even trying their hand at them. They have often rationalised the fact that they are too few and that their time is all spent looking after the problems of urban women.