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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 movementsLand and environment ×1900 to 1947 ×
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),…
1946 to 1947
A sharecroppers' uprising in Bengal demanding two-thirds (tebhaga) of the harvest instead of half. Peasant women formed the Nari Bahini (women's brigade) and faced police with brooms, sickles and household tools.
