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Women's suffrage in India, the Glossary

The Women's suffrage movement in India fought for Indian women's right to political enfranchisement in Colonial India under British rule.^[1]

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History of women in India
History of women's rights
Indian women in politics

Abala Bose

Abala, Lady Bose (8 August 1865 – 25 April 1951) was an Indian social worker and feminist.

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Adyar, Chennai

Adyar is a large neighbourhood in south Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.

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All India Women's Conference

The All India Women's Conference (AIWC) is a non-governmental organisation (NGO) based in Delhi.

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The All-India Muslim League (AIML), simply called the Muslim League, was a political party established in Dhaka in 1906 when some well-known Muslim politicians met the Viceroy of India, Lord Minto, with the goal of securing Muslim interests in British India.

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Ambujammal

Ambujammal Desikachari née Srinivasa Iyengar (1899-1983) was an Indian independence activist and women's rights activist.

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Ammu Swaminathan

Ammu Swaminathan or A. V. Ammakuti (22 April 1894 – 4 July 1978) was an Indian social worker and political activist during the Indian independence movement and a member of the Constituent Assembly of India.

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Amrit Kaur

Rajkumari Dame Bibiji Amrit Kaur (née Ahluwalia) DStJ (2 February 1887 – 6 February 1964) was an Indian activist and politician.

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Annie Besant

Annie Besant (Wood; 1 October 1847 – 20 September 1933) was a British socialist, theosophist, freemason, women's rights and Home Rule activist, educationist, and campaigner for Indian nationalism.

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Annie Mascarene

Annie Mascarene (6 June 1902 – 19 July 1963) was an Indian independence activist, politician and lawyer from Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.

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Anti-imperialism

Anti-imperialism in political science and international relations is opposition to imperialism or neocolonialism.

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Assam Province

Assam Province was a province of British India, created in 1912 by the partition of the Eastern Bengal and Assam Province.

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Austen Chamberlain

Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain (16 October 1863 – 16 March 1937) was a British statesman, son of Joseph Chamberlain and older half-brother of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain.

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Begum Aizaz Rasul

Begum Qudsia Aijaz Rasul (2 April 1909 – 1 August 2001) was the only Muslim woman in the Constituent Assembly of India that drafted the Constitution of India.

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Begum Rokeya

Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain (9 December 1880 – 9 December 1932), commonly known as Begum Rokeya, was a prominent Bengali feminist thinker, writer, educator and political activist from British India.

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Bengal

Geographical distribution of the Bengali language Bengal (Bôṅgo) or endonym Bangla (Bāṅlā) is a historical geographical, ethnolinguistic and cultural term referring to a region in the eastern part of the Indian subcontinent at the apex of the Bay of Bengal.

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Bengal Presidency

The Bengal Presidency, officially the Presidency of Fort William in Bengal, later the Bengal Province, was the largest of all three presidencies of British India during Company rule and later a province of India.

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Bharathiar University

Bharathiar University is a public state university in Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India.

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Bihar and Orissa Province

Bihar and Orissa was a province of British India, which included the present-day Indian states of Bihar, Jharkhand, and parts of Odisha.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

Bloomsbury Publishing plc is a British worldwide publishing house of fiction and non-fiction.

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Bombay Presidency

The Bombay Presidency or Bombay Province, also called Bombay and Sind (1843–1936), was an administrative subdivision (province) of British India and later the Dominion of India, with its capital in the city that came up over the seven islands of Bombay.

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Brill Publishers

Brill Academic Publishers, also known as E. J. Brill, Koninklijke Brill, Brill, is a Dutch international academic publisher of books and journals.

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British Empire

The British Empire comprised the dominions, colonies, protectorates, mandates, and other territories ruled or administered by the United Kingdom and its predecessor states.

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British Raj

The British Raj (from Hindustani, 'reign', 'rule' or 'government') was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent,.

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British rule in Burma

The British colonial rule in Burma lasted from 1824 to 1948, from the successive three Anglo-Burmese wars through the creation of Burma as a province of British India to the establishment of an independently administered colony, and finally independence.

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C. Sankaran Nair

Sir Chettur Sankaran Nair CIE (11 July 1857 – 24 April 1934) was an Indian lawyer and statesman who served as the Advocate-General of Madras from 1906 to 1908, on the High Court of Madras as a puisne justice from 1908 to 1915, and as India-wide Education minister as a member of the Viceroy's Executive Council from 1915 until 1919.

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Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press is the university press of the University of Cambridge.

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Central Legislative Assembly

The Central Legislative Assembly was the lower house of the Imperial Legislative Council, the legislature of British India.

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Central Provinces

The Central Provinces was a province of British India.

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Chennai

Chennai (IAST), formerly known as Madras, is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost state of India.

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Child Marriage Restraint Act

The Child Marriage Restraint Act, 1929, passed on 28 September 1929, in the Imperial Legislative Council of India, fixed the minimum age of marriage for girls at 14 years and boys at 18 years.

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Christian Advocate

The Christian Advocate was a weekly newspaper published in New York City by the Methodist Episcopal Church.

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Colonial India

Colonial India was the part of the Indian subcontinent that was occupied by European colonial powers during the Age of Discovery.

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Commonwealth of Nations

The Commonwealth of Nations, often simply referred to as the Commonwealth, is an international association of 56 member states, the vast majority of which are former territories of the British Empire from which it developed.

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Constituent Assembly of India

The Constituent Assembly of India was elected to frame the Constitution of India.

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Constitution of India

The Constitution of India is the supreme law of India.

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Cornelia Sorabji

Cornelia Sorabji (15 November 1866 – 6 July 1954) was an Indian lawyer, social reformer and writer.

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Council of State (India)

The Council of State was the upper house of the legislature for British India (the Imperial Legislative Council) created by the Government of India Act 1919 from the old Imperial Legislative Council, implementing the Montagu–Chelmsford Reforms.

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Dakshayani Velayudhan

Dakshayani Velayudhan (4 July 1912 – 20 July 1978) was an Indian politician and leader of the oppressed classes.

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Deep Narayan Singh

Deep Narayan Singh was an Indian politician, participant in the Indian independence movement, and a former Chief Minister of Bihar.

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Dhanvanthi Rama Rau

Dhanvanthi, Lady Rama Rau (1893–1987) was founder and president of the Family Planning Association of India and the International Planned Parenthood Federation.

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Domestic violence in India

Domestic violence in India includes any form of violence suffered by a person from a biological relative but typically is the violence suffered by a woman by male members of her family or relatives.

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Dominion

A dominion was any of several largely self-governing countries of the British Empire.

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Dominion of India

The Dominion of India, officially the Union of India,.

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Dorothy Jinarajadasa

Dorothy Jinarajadasa (born Dorothy May Graham; 19 March 1881 - 13 January 1963) was an English feminist, suffragette, and writer based in India.

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Dowry system in India

The dowry system in India refers to the durable goods, cash, and real or movable property that the bride's family gives to the groom, his parents and his relatives as a condition of the marriage.

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Drew University

Drew University is a private university in Madison, New Jersey.

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Durgabai Deshmukh

Durgabāi Deshmukh (née Gummididala, 15 July 1909 – 9 May 1981) was an Indian freedom fighter, lawyer, social worker and politician.

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Edwin Montagu

Edwin Samuel Montagu PC (6 February 1879 – 15 November 1924) was a British Liberal politician who served as Secretary of State for India between 1917 and 1922.

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Female foeticide in India

Female foeticide in India (translation) is the abortion of a female foetus outside of legal methods.

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Feminist Press

The Feminist Press at CUNY is an American independent nonprofit literary publisher of the City University of New York, based in New York City.

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Francesca Arundale

Francesca Arundale (born 1847 in Brighton, England; died 23 March 1924 in India) was an English theosophist and freemason.

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Francis Hopwood, 1st Baron Southborough

Francis John Stephens Hopwood, 1st Baron Southborough, (2 December 1860 – 17 January 1947) was a British civil servant and solicitor.

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Frederic Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford

Frederic John Napier Thesiger, 1st Viscount Chelmsford, (12 August 1868 – 1 April 1933), styled the Lord Chelmsford until 1921, was a British statesman.

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Gandhi–Irwin Pact

The Gandhi–Irwin Pact was a political agreement signed by Mahatma Gandhi and Lord Irwin, Viceroy of India, on 4 March 1931 before the Second Round Table Conference in London.

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Gender inequality in India

Gender inequality in India refers to health, education, economic and political inequalities between men and women in India.

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Gender pay gap in India

Gender pay gap in India refers to the difference in earnings between women and men in the paid employment and the labor market.

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Government of India Act 1919

The Government of India Act 1919 (9 & 10 Geo. 5. c. 101) was an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Government of India Act 1935

The Government of India Act 1935 (25 & 26 Geo. 5. c. 42) was an act passed by the British Parliament that originally received royal assent in August 1935.

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Governor-General of India

The governor-general of India (1833 to 1950, from 1858 to 1947 the viceroy and governor-general of India, commonly shortened to viceroy of India) was the representative of the monarch of the United Kingdom in their capacity as the Emperor/Empress of India and after Indian independence in 1947, the representative of the Monarch of India.

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Hansa Jivraj Mehta

Hansa Jivraj Mehta (3 July 1897 – 4 April 1995) was a reformist, social activist, educator, independence activist, feminist and writer from India.

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Herabai Tata

Herabai Tata (1879–1941) was an Indian women's rights activist and suffragist.

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India Office

The India Office was a British government department in London established in 1858 to oversee the administration of the Provinces of India, through the British viceroy and other officials.

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Indian Independence Act 1947

The Indian Independence Act 1947 (10 & 11 Geo. 6. c. 30) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom that partitioned British India into the two new independent dominions of India and Pakistan.

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Indian National Congress

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Indian rupee

The Indian rupee (symbol: ₹; code: INR) is the official currency in India.

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International Alliance of Women

The International Alliance of Women (IAW; Alliance Internationale des Femmes, AIF) is an international non-governmental organization that works to promote women's rights and gender equality.

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International Council of Women

The International Council of Women (ICW) is a women's organization working across national boundaries for the common cause of advocating human rights for women.

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Jahanara Shahnawaz

Begum Jahanara Shahnawaz, also known as Jehan Ara Shah Nawaz (7 April 1896 – 27 November 1979), was a prominent activist and politician in Punjab, active before and after independence of Pakistan.

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Jhalawar State

Jhalawar State was a Princely State in India during the British Raj.

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Joint committee of the Parliament of the United Kingdom

A joint committee of the Parliament of the United Kingdom is a joint committee of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, formed to examine a particular issue, whose members are drawn from both the House of Commons and House of Lords.

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Jus Suffragii

Jus Suffragii was the official journal of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance, published monthly from 1906 to 1924.

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Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay

Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay (3 April 1903 – 29 October 1988) was an Indian social reformer.

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Kamini Roy

Kamini Roy (12 October 1864 – 27 September 1933) was a Bengali poet, social worker and feminist in British India.

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Kamla Chaudhry

Kamla Chaudhry (22 February 1908 – 1970) was an Indian short story writer in Hindi language and a Member of Parliament from Hapur in the 3rd Lok Sabha.

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Kingdom of Cochin

The Kingdom of Cochin, also known as the Kingdom of Kochi or later as Cochin State, named after its capital in the city of Kochi (Cochin), was an Indian Hindu kingdom in the central part of present-day Kerala state.

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Kingdom of Mysore

The Kingdom of Mysore was a geopolitical realm in southern India founded in around 1399 in the vicinity of the modern-day city of Mysore and prevailed until 1950.

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Kolkata

Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta (its official name until 2001), is the capital and largest city of the Indian state of West Bengal.

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Lakshmibai Rajwade

Lakshmibai Rajwade (1887–1984) was an Indian medical doctor, feminist, and family planning advocate.

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Leela Roy

Leela Roy, (2 October 1900 – 11 June 1970), was a leftist Indian woman politician and reformer, and a close associate of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.

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London School of Economics

The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is a public research university in London, England, and amember institution of the University of London.

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Madras Presidency

The Madras Presidency or Madras Province, officially called the Presidency of Fort St.

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Maharshi Dayanand University

Maharshi Dayanand University (also called M.D. University or simply MDU; formerly University of Rohtak) is an Indian public university in Rohtak, Haryana.

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Mahatma Gandhi

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (ISO: Mōhanadāsa Karamacaṁda Gāṁdhī; 2 October 186930 January 1948) was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule.

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Malati Choudhury

Malati Devi Choudhury (née Sen) (26 July 1904– 15 March 1998) was an Indian civil rights and freedom activist and Gandhian.

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Margaret Cousins

Margaret Elizabeth Cousins (née Gillespie, also known as Gretta Cousins; 7 November 1878 – 11 March 1954) was an Irish-Indian educationist, suffragist and Theosophist, who established All India Women's Conference (AIWC) in 1927.

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Mary Poonen Lukose

Mary Poonen Lukose was an Indian gynecologist, obstetrician and the first female Surgeon General in India.

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Men's rights movement in India

The men's rights movement in India is composed of various independent men's rights organisations in India.

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Mithan Jamshed Lam

Mithan Jamshed Lam (1898–1981) was an Indian lawyer, social activist and the Sheriff of Mumbai.

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Modern Asian Studies

Modern Asian Studies is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal in the field of Asian studies, published by Cambridge University Press.

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Montagu–Chelmsford Reforms

The Montagu–Chelmsford Reforms or more briefly known as the Mont–Ford Reforms, were introduced by the colonial government to introduce self-governing institutions gradually in British India.

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Mridula Sarabhai

Mridula Sarabhai (6 May 1911 – 26 October 1974) was an Indian independence activist and politician.

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Muddiman Committee

The Muddiman Committee or the Reforms Enquiry Committee (1924) was a committee led by Sir Alexander Muddinman, organized by the British and Indian government, to meet the demand of Indian leaders in the context of Indians new (swaraj party resolution 1920 (India's Independence). This committee would aid in investigating the diarchy issue on the Constitution as set up in 1921 under the Indian Council Act of 1919.

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Muthulakshmi Reddy

Muthulakshmi Reddy (also spelled Reddi in some British Indian sources; 30 July 1886 – 22 July 1968) was an Indian medical practitioner, social reformer and Padma Bhushan award recipient.

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National Commission for Women

The National Commission for Women (NCW) is a statutory body of the Government of India, generally concerned with advising the government on all policy matters affecting women.

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National Council of Women in India

The National Council of Women in India (NCWI) was a women's organization in India, founded in 1925. Women's suffrage in India and National Council of Women in India are history of women in India.

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Nationalism

Nationalism is an idea and movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the state.

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Nehru Report

The Nehru Report of 1928 was a memorandum by All Parties Conference in British India to appeal for a new dominion status and a federal set-up of government for the constitution of India.

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Nellie Sengupta

Nellie Sengupta (née Edith Ellen Gray; 12 January 1886 – 23 October 1973) was an English-Indian politician and social worker who fought for Indian Independence.

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One Hundred and Sixth Amendment of the Constitution of India

The Constitution (One Hundred and Sixth Amendment) Act, popularly known as the Women's Reservation Bill, 2023 (IAST: Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam), was introduced in Lok Sabha on 19 September 2023 during the special session of Parliament.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Penn State University Press

The Penn State University Press, also known as The Pennsylvania State University Press, is a non-profit publisher of scholarly books and journals.

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Perin Captain

Perin Ben Captain (1888–1958) was an Indian freedom activist, social worker, and the grand daughter of renowned Indian intellectual and leader, Dadabhai Naoroji.

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Presidencies and provinces of British India

The provinces of India, earlier presidencies of British India and still earlier, presidency towns, were the administrative divisions of British governance on the Indian subcontinent.

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Princely state

A princely state (also called native state or Indian state) was a nominally sovereign entity of the British Indian Empire that was not directly governed by the British, but rather by an Indian ruler under a form of indirect rule, subject to a subsidiary alliance and the suzerainty or paramountcy of the British crown.

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Project Muse

Project MUSE (Museums Uniting with Schools in Education), a non-profit collaboration between libraries and publishers, is an online database of peer-reviewed academic journals and electronic books.

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Punjab

Punjab (also romanised as Panjāb or Panj-Āb), also known as the Land of the Five Rivers, is a geopolitical, cultural, and historical region in South Asia. It is specifically located in the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent, comprising areas of modern-day eastern-Pakistan and northwestern-India.

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Purdah

Pardah or purdah (from Hindi-Urdu پردہ, पर्दा, meaning "curtain") is a religious and social practice of gender partition prevalent among some Muslim and Hindu communities.

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Purnima Banerjee

Purnima Banerjee (née Ganguly, 1911-1951) was an Indian anti-colonial nationalist and a member of the Constituent Assembly of India from 1946 to 1950.

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Radhabai Subbarayan

Kailash Radhabai Subbarayan, nee Kudmul (22 April 1891 - 1960) was an Indian politician, women's rights activist and social reformer.

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Rajkot State

Rajkot State was one of the princely states of India during the period of British rule.

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Ramabai Ranade

Ramabai Ranade (25 January 1862 – 25 January 1924) was an Indian social worker and one of the first women's rights activists in the early 20th century.

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Rape in India

Rape is the fourth most common crime against women in India.

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Renuka Ray

Renuka Ray (1904–1997) was a noted freedom-fighter, social activist and politician of India.

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Representation of the People Act 1918

The Representation of the People Act 1918 (7 & 8 Geo. 5. c. 64) was an act of Parliament passed to reform the electoral system in Great Britain and Ireland.

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Round Table Conferences (India)

The three Round Table Conferences of 1930–1932 were a series of peace conference's, organized by the British Government and Indian political personalities to discuss constitutional reforms in India.

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Routledge

Routledge is a British multinational publisher.

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Rukmini Lakshmipathi

Rukmini Laxmipathi (also spelled as Rukmani Lakshmipathi; 6 December 1892 – 6 August 1951) was an Indian independence activist and politician belonging to the Indian National Congress.

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Salt March

The Salt march, also known as the Salt Satyagraha, Dandi March, and the Dandi Satyagraha, was an act of nonviolent civil disobedience in colonial India, led by Mahatma Gandhi.

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Sarala Devi Chaudhurani

Sarala Devi Chaudhurani (born Sarala Ghosal; 9 September 1872 – 18 August 1945) was an Indian educationist and political activist, who founded Bharat Stree Mahamandal in Allahabad in 1910.

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Sarojini Naidu

Sarojini Naidu (13 February 1879 – 2 March 1949) was an Indian political activist and poet who served as the first Governor of United Provinces, after India's independence.

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Secretary of State for India

His (or Her) Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for India, known for short as the India secretary or the Indian secretary, was the British Cabinet minister and the political head of the India Office responsible for the governance of the British Indian Empire, including Aden, Burma and the Persian Gulf Residency.

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Sharda Mehta

Sharda Mehta (26 June 1882 – 13 November 1970) was an Indian social worker, proponent of women's education, and a Gujarati writer.

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Shareefa Hamid Ali (– 1971), also known as Begum Hamid Ali, was an Indian feminist, nationalist, advocate, and political figure.

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Shivaji University

Shivaji University, established in 1962, is a state university located at Kolhapur, Maharashtra, India.

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Simon Commission

The Indian Statutory Commission, also known as the simon commission, was a group of seven members of the British Parliament under the chairmanship of Sir John Simon.

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Sita Devi, Maharani of Baroda

Princess Sita Devi of Pithapuram (formerly known as “Queen of Baroda”) (2 May 1917 – 15 February 1989) was known as the "Indian Wallis Simpson".

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Southborough Franchise Committee

The Southborough Committee, referred to at the time as the Franchise Committee, was one of three British committees which sat in India from 1918 to 1919, including also the Committee on Home Administration and the Feetham Function Committee.

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Stri Dharma

Stri Dharma was the magazine of the Women's Indian Association which was first published in January 1918 by two Theosophist feminists –Margaret Cousins and Dorothy Jinarajadasa– and continued until August 1936.

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Sucheta Kripalani

Sucheta Kripalani (née Majumdar; 25 June 1908 – 1 December 1974) was an Indian freedom fighter and politician.

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Taylor & Francis

Taylor & Francis Group is an international company originating in England that publishes books and academic journals.

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The Indian Express

The Indian Express is an English-language Indian daily newspaper founded in 1932 by Ramnath Goenka with an investment by capitalist partner Raja Mohan Prasad.

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Travancore

The Kingdom of Travancore, also known as the Kingdom of Thiruvithamkoor or later as Travancore State, was an Indian kingdom that lasted from until 1949.

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Uma Nehru

Uma Nehru (8 March 1884 – 28 August 1963) was an Indian independence activist and politician.

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United Provinces of Agra and Oudh

The United Provinces of Agra and Oudh was a province of India under the British Raj, which existed from 22 March 1902 to 1937; the official name was shortened by the Government of India Act 1935 to United Provinces (UP), by which the province had been commonly known, and by which name it was also a province of independent India until 1950.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

The University of Pennsylvania Press, also known as Penn Press, is a university press affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania, an Ivy League university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Untouchability

Untouchability is a form of social institution that legitimises and enforces practices that are discriminatory, humiliating, exclusionary and exploitative against people belonging to certain social groups.

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Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (née Swarup Nehru; 18 August 1900 – 1 December 1990) was an Indian freedom fighter, diplomat and politician.

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Welfare schemes for women in India

Under Article 15(3), the Constitution of India allows for positive discrimination in favor of women.

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Woman's Christian Temperance Union

The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) is an international temperance organization.

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Women in India

The status of women in India has been subject to many changes over the time of recorded India's history.

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Women in the Indian Armed Forces

In the Indian Armed Forces women are allowed to join mainly in combat service support branches and in non combatant roles.

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Women's History Review

Women's History Review is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal of women's history published by Routledge.

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Women's Indian Association

The Women's Indian Association (WIA) was founded at Adayar, Madras, in 1917 by Annie Besant, Margaret Cousins, Dorothy Jinarajadasa, and others to liberate women from the deplorable condition women suffered in socio-economic and political matters during the 19th and the early 20th century.

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