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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 movementsLaw and rights ×1900 to 1947 ×
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.
1923 onwardStill going
Founded by Huda Sha'arawi, who removed her face veil in public at Cairo's railway station on her return from an international women's congress in 1923. The union campaigned for girls' education, a higher minimum…
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