As I've said before. In India to for a Hindu to show they're "progressive", they need to attack Hinduism.
But you can be a fundamentalist Muslim, an apologist for perfect (fundamentalist) Islam, and be called "progressive" by the Indian Left. You can even spin away the Taliban.😆
I already referred you to a book. India had Stridhan, moveable property that was controlled and passed on via women. This was changed in colonial rule as land become tradeable and women disinherited in property.
Dowry was a European custom and distortion introduced to India. But even today people parents will say "hamari ladki hai, jo hamara man karega, vo usko denge." The meaning of "dowry" in India as stridhan. inheritance of a woman, needs to to be restored. It belongs to her.
The results are apparent in every field. From Artificial Intelligence patents to the Olympics.
"English Advantage"
No, there is practically no example of a country neglecting the mother tongue of the majority of people to impose a foreign language, and then becoming a technological leader.
English imposition and slavery is India's liability. We still don't get it.
More humans have been sacrificed in the name of the Christian god "saving" heathens than in any other name. And your entire religion is based on human sacrifice—Jesus, the "lamb of God."
Yet the death cult justifies genocide by creating atrocity literatures on native cultures.
When will Christians repent, not for some mythical "original sin" but for lying for ages, and the violence they wrought upon the world. 100 millions natives killed in Americas, millions of women burnt, for the "final solution", for continuing missionaries.
Nuns are devdasis on steroids. While devdasis were carriers of culture, music and dance, the nuns are truly enslaved to the Catholic priesthood, used and abused at will. Many are willing participants.