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Indian Suffragettes: Female Identities and Transnational Networks by Sumita Mukherjee (Senior Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, University of Bristol)

Popular depictions of campaigns for women's suffrage in films and literature have invariably focused on Western suffrage movements. The fact that Indian women built up a vibrant suffrage movement in the twentieth century has been largely neglected. The Indian 'suffragettes' were not only actively involved in campaigns within the Indian subcontinent, they also travelled to Britain, America, Europe, and elsewhere, taking part in transnational discourses on feminism, democracy, and suffrage. Indian Suffragettes focuses on the different geographical spaces in which Indian women were operating. Covering the period from the 1910s until 1950, it shows how Indian women campaigning for suffrage positioned themselves within an imperial system and invoked various identities, whether regional, national, imperial, or international, in the context of debates about the vote. Significantly, this volume analyses how the global connections that were forged influenced social and political change in the Indian subcontinent, highlighting Indian mobility at a time when they were colonial subjects.

About Sumita Mukherjee (Senior Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, University of Bristol)

Sumita Mukherjee is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Bristol. She has published widely on the history of mobile South Asians, including the book, Nationalism, Education and Migrant Identities: The England-Returned.

Table of Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements List of Images Abbreviations Introduction: Indian Suffrage Networks and Identities Chapter 1: Indian Suffragettes and British Imperial Connections Chapter 2: Indian Suffragettes and Commonwealth Networks Chapter 3: Indian Suffragettes and International Feminist Networks Chapter 4: Indian Suffragettes and Asian, Oriental, or Eastern Networks Chapter 5: Indian Suffragettes and Nationalism: Rejection of British Networks Epilogue: Women, Votes, and Seats in the Indian Subcontinent after 1947 Timeline Appendix: Brief Biographies Bibliography Index

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GOR009678808
9780199484218
019948421X
Indian Suffragettes: Female Identities and Transnational Networks by Sumita Mukherjee (Senior Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, University of Bristol)
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