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The history of women’s studies in india has had an indigenous growth. It has emerged more as an consequence of the concern of the society towards women’s position and problems. Its birth can be traced to the recognition of a failure on the part of social scientists to enquire into women’s issues, their lack of questioning of the assumptions, theories and tools of analysis borrowed from the west and to bridge the glaring gaps in data that might help orient policy changes. This was because many of the social scientists and educational planners had found it necessary to re-examine the concepts and methodological approaches in terms of the social reality obtained in India. Women’s studies thus started as part of a larger social movement and the growing social concern among few academicians with the widening issues of poverty, unemployment, inequality and underdevelopment. It gradually evolved the aim of bringing about greater knowledge on the social basis of women’s inequality, their marginalization in development and their exclusions from power structures. The introduction of women’s studies into the University System has been a path breaking event for social scientists and other scholars who wanted to see a comprehensive and balanced presention of our social reality. It is viewed as an instrument for social and academic development that will help the university community and the society at large towards a better understanding of the multi-dimensional roles played by women and would look into the causes for gender disparity. For the past few decades, the world community is focusing on the issues concerning gender disparity leading to serious social imbalances. In this context Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain has written about the women emancipation and explained it through her writings in “Sultana’s Dream”.