This paper attempts to document the changing attitude of sections of bhadralok in colonial Bengal towards middle-class women’s paid work. From the 1920s onwards, a number of journal editors and contributors, overcoming their earlier inhibitions, began to propagate middle-class women’s/widows’ economic independence. However, the nature and limits of the proposed economic
The key take-away remains LC’s analysis of the term workman based on past Supreme Court judgments and rationale behind determining whether an employee despite holding title as a manager may be considered a workman as per IDA