About the Book: Indian Suffragettes: Female Identities and Transnational
Networks
Popular depictions of campaigns for womens 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