Please answer the following questions using the primary sources listed:
How should we characterize Gandhi’s understanding of women? Is it a traditional (patriarchal) understanding, a progressive understanding, or does it stand somewhere between the two?
Primary sources:
• Gandhi, Essential Writings, 228-242(see Pdf document);
• Gandhi, “Women’s Problems,” in Selections from Gandhi, 271-283 (see pdf document).

Please base your report on the primary sources listed. You might find helpful context in our lessons (8 and 9 course note) and you are welcome to employ this information; no footnotes are necessary here (although we must use footnotes or parenthetical citations to document our use of the primary sources, whether or not we are quoting them directly). I would not like you necessarily to agree with the lessons’ conclusions; bracket these and base your conclusions on the sources listed; weigh the evidence for yourself.1
Strengths of this report include a clear criterion, standard or definition for weighing evidence;2 a clear thesis statement and structure; and acknowledgment of possible qualifications in the evidence, for instance, developments in Gandhi’s views.

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