EMPOWERMENT OF BEDA WOMEN WITH RESPECT TO THEIR SOCIO-ECONOMIC STATUS IN RAICHUR DISTRICT, KARNATAKA

Abstract

The society is claimed to be more civilized only when it has literary development. Beda women recognized the extraordinary significance of education and economic development. Education has a vital role to play in the socio-economic life of the people. Amongst the population of Raichur district in Karnataka State. Still may families are living under poverty line in other than the Beda women community. The Beda women educational system of the medieval period served the changing socio-economic and political needs of India for over six centuries become so irrelevant in the contemporary times. The introduction of modern education in India effected revolutionary changes in the socio-economic life of Indian Beda women. It brought rationalistic ideas and non-religious values among the Indian masses. As a result of their progress of education and improved economic condition the Tribals began to derive the utility of the modem household things and equipment’s. The spread of modern education has increased the average marriage age of the Tribal girls. Previously girls got married in the age of fifteen or sixteen. Even though the Tribals of these regions are economically backward but when compared with their previous condition they are in a better status now; this credit goes to the spread of education among them only. However, it will help one to have a clear idea when pertinently examine the packages of rights that Tribal grants to the Beda women in Raichur district of Karnataka state.