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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 ×1990 to 2009 ×In the past ×
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…
Violence and safetyLaw and rightsWork and money
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