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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 ...
Chandramukhi Basu, Kadambini Ganguly and Anandi Gopal Joshi were some of the earliest Indian women to obtain a degree. In 1917, the first women's delegation met the Secretary of State to demand women's political rights, supported by the Indian National Congress.
Feminism in India is a set of movements aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, and social rights and opportunities for women in India. It is the pursuit of women's rights within the society of India. Like their feminist counterparts all over the world, feminists in India seek gender equality: the right to work ...
Jhalkaribai (22 November 1830 – 5 April 1858) was a woman soldier who played an important role in the Indian Rebellion of 1857. She served in the women's army of Rani Lakshmibai of Jhansi and eventually rose to a position of a prominent advisor to the queen, Rani of Jhansi. [9] At the height of the Siege of Jhansi, she disguised herself as ...
The National Council of Women in India (NCWI) was a women's organization in India, founded in 1925.. It was the second of the first three major feminist organizations in India, alongside Women's Indian Association (WIA) and All-India Women's Conference (AIWC), [1] and India's first representative in the International Council of Women (ICW) as the predecessor of the AIWC.
Savitribai Phule. Bust of Savitribai Phule. Savitribai Phule (pronunciation ⓘ) was one of the first female teachers in India, [5] a social reformer, and a poet. Along with her husband, Jyotiba Phule, in Maharashtra, she played a vital role in improving women's rights in India. She is considered to be the pioneer of India's feminist movement.
The Women's suffrage movement in India fought for Indian women's right to political enfranchisement in Colonial India under British rule. Beyond suffrage, the movement was fighting for women's right to stand for and hold office during the colonial era. In 1918, when Britain granted limited suffrage to women property holders, the law did not ...
In 20th-century history context, the position of women in Hinduism and more generally India, has many contradictions. [148] Regional Hindu traditions are organized as matriarchal societies (such as in south India and northeast India), where the woman is the head of the household and inherits the wealth; yet, other Hindu traditions are ...