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What significant role did women play in the Indian National Movement?

  • UPSC 2016
  • Rise of Gandhi and the Gandhian Era

Women's participation transformed the Indian national movement from an elite, male, urban affair into a genuine mass movement, even as the movement's own engagement with women's emancipation remained uneven and incomplete.

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  • Early Participation and the Suffrage Question
  • Gandhi and the Mass Mobilisation of Women
  • Revolutionary and Militant Participation
  • An Assessment of the Movement's Limits

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