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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 movementsViolence and safety ×1990 to 2009 ×In the past ×
1991 to 1995
Rural women in Andhra Pradesh, many of them learners in an adult literacy campaign, organised against the sale of arrack (cheap liquor) that was fuelling domestic violence and debt. Starting in Dubagunta village in…
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…
Violence and safetyLaw and rightsWork and money
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