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Abstract
Gender played an important role in the articulation of social hierarchies that would assert the superiority of the British over Indian society and justified the imposition of British rule over India. James Mill, using a woman’s position as an indicator of the social advancement of society, famously constructed the Indian woman as a degraded victim of her barbaric society. Although the degraded Hindu woman persisted as an index of Indian society’s need of rescue through colonial rule after the Revolt of 1857, the colonial state distanced itself increasingly from active intervention. For this purpose, initiatives were taken into account to provide better health and hygiene to women in colonial Punjab. Thus, the present research paper is about the initiatives taken by the British government to provide Health, Hygiene and Sanitation to Women in Colonial Punjab.