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The position of Indian women in society deteriorated during this period. [12] [13] Jauhar which became a custom among Rajputs was performed when they were faced with invaders like Turco-Afghans from the 11th century to avoid being enslaved and lose their honor.
The history of feminism in India can be divided into three phases: the first phase, beginning in the mid-19th century, initiated when reformists began to speak in favour of women rights by making reforms in education and customs involving women; [2] [3] the second phase, from 1915 to Indian independence, when Gandhi incorporated women's ...
The status of women in India has been subject to many great changes over the past few millennia. With a decline in their status from the ancient to medieval times ...
He and his wife, Savitribai Phule, were pioneers of women's education in India. [5] [6] Phule started his first school for girls in 1848 in Pune at Tatyasaheb Bhide's residence or Bhidewada. [7] He, along with his followers, formed the Satyashodhak Samaj (Society of Truth Seekers) to attain equal rights for people from lower castes. People from ...
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:19th-century Indian people. It includes Indian people that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Subcategories
Aamar Jiban, published in 1876, is the name of Rashsundari Devi's autobiography and is the first autobiography written by an Indian woman and also the first written by any Bengali female. [1] [2] It tells us about the status of women in the 19th-century Indian society and the excess amount of inequality and hardship they had to go through. It ...
The Indian independence movement was a series of events aimed at ending the British rule in India, which lasted till 1947. Women played a significant and prominent role in the Indian independence movement. The participation of women in the movement started as early as the eighteenth century.
Recasting Women: Essays in Colonial History [1] is a 1989 book, edited by Kumkum Sangari [2] and Sudesh Vaid, [3] published by Kali for Women in India and by the Rutgers University Press in the United States. The anthology attempts to explore the inter-relation of patriarchies with political economy, law, religion and culture and to suggest a ...