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Short histories of 65 feminist movements, India and South Asia first. Each has a timeline, links to read more elsewhere, and books from our shelf where we have them. These are starting points, not the last word: tell us what is missing through the complaints box or a discussion thread.
2 movementsWork and money ×India ×1948 to 1989 ×
1972 onwardStill going
A trade union for women in the informal economy, from street vendors and head-loaders to home-based workers, founded in Ahmedabad by Ela Bhatt. It grew into one of the largest unions of women workers in the world, with…
1973 onwardStill going
A forest protection movement in the Garhwal Himalaya, in today's Uttarakhand. Village women, who depended on the forests for fuel, fodder and water, became its most visible protectors, famously holding on to trees to…
