Women constitute almost half of the population in the world. However, their enjoyment of rights equally with that of men is far from satisfactory. In every society from ancient to modern times, women are considered as the property of men to serve their interest in both society and domestic front. Role of women were confined to her being a wife and a mother as has been depicted in the inscriptions. They were denied the opportunities of education and refinement. With a patriarchal mindset that was predominant in the society of19th century colonial Assam, women were generally discriminated. Yet the historiography on that period confined the study of women to a single chapter or sometimes only a footnote.. This paper made mainly an attempt to study about the position occupied by the Assamese women in the society in the 19th century Assam and also about their changing status as result of this social transition.

Women, Society, Education, Colonial Assam