New Delhi: Social evils, such as child marriage, “sati pratha”, a ban on widow re-marriage, cropped up in the Indian society, leading to subjugation of women, due to the Islamic invasion, a senior RSS functionary said on Sunday.
In the medieval period, various kinds of restrictions were put on women and girls to protect them from invaders, senior Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) functionary Krishna Gopal said while addressing an event titled “Nari Shakti Sangam” organised at the Delhi University.
Stating that the medieval period was a very “difficult” time, he said, “The entire country was struggling with subjugation. Temples were demolished, big universities destroyed and women were in danger.”
“Lakhs of women were abducted and sold in markets the world over. Be it (Ahmad Shah) Abdali, (Muhammad) Ghori, (the Mahmud of) Ghazni, all of them took women from here and sold them in markets across the world. It was an era of great humiliation,” Gopal said.
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