Femmes indiennes entre nationalisme et féminisme, des années 1880 à 19471

Abstract

The struggle for complete freedom from British rule ended in 1947 when India became an independent nation. Both Indian men and women participated in the resistance, which started in the late nineteenth century. Focusing on Indian women's participation in the nationalist movement this article shows the ways these women participated both in non-violent and violent movements. Furthermore, this article also analyzes the intersection of religious, feminist, and nationalist claims on the part of women who were active during the first half of the twentieth century. The sources for this article are memoirs and autobiographies, written in Bengali and English; Bengali, English and Hindi newspapers and police records.