52 SOCIAL SCIENTIST women by examining social processes, and the structures they create, thus crucially shaping and conditioning the relations between men and women. Just as Altekar displaced Mill in his work, it is time we realized that despite Altekar's substantial contribution we must lay his ghost aside and begin afresh. NOTES AND REFERENCES 1. Shakuntala Rao Shastri, Women in the Sacred Laws, 1959, pp. 172-73, 189. 2. R.C. Dutt, A History of Civilization in Ancient India, 1972 (Reprint), pp. 168-169. 3. Ibid., p. 171. 4. A.S. Altekar, The Position of Women in Hindu Civilization, 1987 (Reprint), p. 337. 5. Ibid., p. 95. 6. Ibid., p. 1. 7. Ibid., p. 3. 8. Ibid., p. 28. 9. Ibid., p. 5. 10. Ibid, p. 339. 11. Ibid. 12. Ibid, p. 345. UMA CHAKRAVARTI Department of History Miranda House, Delhi University