Women's changing their surname after marriage is against the Bhartiya culture.

Today I see that most of the women change their surname after marriage. In Bharat, women have always been considered as herself. They need not to change their identity for marriage. But due to influence of western culture, it has been very common nowadays. In West, women have very less conceptual value and they are supposed to have been made for men.It is just an imported tradition.But in ancient Bharat, women never change their identity and in spite of that they were ideal lady(wife/mother/sisters etc). Sita, Radha, Laxmi, Uma etc are the example of that.

If we further take an example of Ramayan and Mahabharat age, wife and husband were mutually identified by the name of each other. Sitaraman, Jankiballabh, Durgesh, Umapati, Umesh are the names of males which were derived from the respective female counterparts and Sivangi, Vaishnavi, Maheshwari are the names of females which were derived from the respective male counterpart.But their basic names were always constant : Ram is always Ram and Sita is always Sita.

But nowadays, only women change their identity by changing their basic names. What do they need to do that? This is something that does not fit into great bhartiya culture. Bhartiya culture considers & accepts every entity as itself.

Most of the hindu women change their religion also when they marry in another religion which is very bad. But muslim and christian women do not change their religion. I appreciate muslim and christian women for that.


This is due to the fact that a negative-tradition(Kupratha) is running in our society according to which women should have to adopt their husband's surname by changing/modifying their actual name which is given by their parents and family members. If any woman refuses to do that, She is mentally torchered. Having been compelled by this fashion, they have to change their identity. On the basis of this logic, they have to change their religion also when they marry in another religion.

When women go to their husband's home having left their parents home after marriage, they do sucrifice for stabilishing the family(family values) and society(sociel values). So they should be given privilleges in their new family rather than being imposed to change their identity(surname/religion). In our culture/society, a person who do sacrifice for society is worshiped. But women, in spite of doing such a big sacrifice for society are taken for granted and are expected to leave their original identity. This is an injustful and and Anti-Vedic tradition.

Also, If We look into our social architecture, the women and their parent's side are considered inferior to men and their parent's side. This is against the vedic tradition whrere persons who do sacrifice are considered superior to others.


So this kupratha must be removed, if we are really serious about women empowerment. What do you all think about that?

By:
Jainendra Pratap Singh