Which best describes the author's overall perspective in the above paragraph? I was born into a religion that placed me, a Brahmin, at the top of its hierarchy while condemning me, as a woman, to a role of subservience. The larger political entity to which I first gave my allegiance-India-was not even a sovereign nation when I was born.

It's seems I be saying that she was born into a religion that told her what she should do and while it had its benefits it also pushed her down since she was a woman to the role of serving. the larger political entity could mean a higher being that she was born into therefore forming an allegiance to then it speaks of India a nation which changed since she was born