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mony. In the last analysis, economic freedom is the basic demand. That is the only way out of the impasse created by the break-down of an old social order. Justice as well as general social welfare demands the establishment of that freedom on the part of women. Indeed, the freedom demanded by the modern woman alone can prevent the dissolution of the family as a necessary social institution, and head off the danger of a social chaos. The modern woman does not want to create social chaos. She has been thrown in the midst of one. She is only trying to get out of it. Let her not be handicapped by the loadstone of the fictitious ideal of Indian womanhood, tied around her neck.
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