Indian Feminism

Reading list: India’s women writers who have been smashing patriarchy for generations

Meet a robust line of feminist writers from India who have been writing against male injustice since the sixth century BCE.

Urmi Chanda-Vaz
· Dec 01, 2018 · 12:30 pm
How Brahma Kumaris rose from a small spiritual group in pre-Partition Sindh to a global organisation

The women-led organisation was, ironically, founded a man – Lekhraj Khubchand Kriplani, better known as Dada Lekhraj.

Zahida Rehman Jatt
· Mar 03, 2018 · 11:30 am
Video: Rukhmabai Raut, the woman in today’s Google doodle was one of India’s first feminists

She wrote and advocated for gender rights, particularly on issues of child marriage and women's education.

Smitha Nair
· Nov 22, 2017 · 05:39 pm

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