Loading…
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.
3 movementsWork and money ×India ×In the past ×
1946 to 1951
Women joined the peasant rebellion against landlords and the Nizam's rule as fighters, couriers and organisers. Their testimonies, gathered decades later by Stree Shakti Sanghatana in 'We Were Making History' (1989),…
2000 to 2016
After ten civilians were shot dead at a bus stop in Malom, Manipur, in November 2000, Irom Sharmila began a hunger strike demanding the repeal of AFSPA. Force-fed through a nasal tube in custody for sixteen years, she…
1992 to 2013
Bhanwari Devi, a grassroots worker (saathin) in a Rajasthan government women's programme, was gang-raped in 1992 after trying to stop a child marriage. Women's groups took the fight to the Supreme Court, which in 1997…
