Currently given the poverty of rural India that is not a credible solution. I’m not, I hope, being rude, but have you ever visited rural India? Not city poverty, which is bad enough but is seen by tourists, but actual rural poverty? Because you are writing as if it was a First World country.
Micro-credit banks and mobile phones are making a difference, but it’s going to be a slow process. By Indian village standards, the first white settlers in America were already rich.
See above. With the exception of micro-credit banking all of those things cost more money than the rural economy can sustain. He is challenging rather than perpetrating the existing order by telling the women that they are allowed to fight back. In fact, this is reaching the standards of the 19th century in Europe.
