All-India Women's Conference

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Literary responses Eleanor Rathbone
Responses of some Indian feminists to Rathbone's work were not overwhelmingly positive. Begum Hamid Ali and Raj Kumari Amrit Kaur wrote to her about her book's usefulness, but pointed out its failure to acknowledge...
politics Eleanor Rathbone
The unfolding of this early conference suggests the serious weaknesses of Rathbone's stance on Indian women's issues. One of the first female students at the University of Madras and the founder of an Indian Women's Association
politics Eleanor Rathbone
ER wrote regularly and candidly to the heads of the All-India Women's Conference and Women's Indian Association , as well as to nationalist Raj Kumari Amrit Kaur and suffragist Radhabai Subbarayan , among others. Rathbone...
Textual Features Rosita Forbes
RF builds her conclusion from the idea of two great influences in India that we, that is English people, are ignorant of: the influence of religion, and the influence of women. The latter is immeasurable...

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7 February 1928: The All-India Women's Conference opened;...

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7 February 1928

The All-India Women's Conference opened; participants adopted resolutions urging the necessity of compulsory education for girls.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
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