Early Feminists of Colonial India: Sarala Devi Chaudhurani and Rokeya Sakhawat HossainChaudhurani belonged to a Hindu-Brahmo community and was related to the nationalist poet-philosopher Rabindranath Tagore. She was perhaps the first woman political leader from Bengal in the nationalist movement and founded the first all-India women's organization in 1910. Hossain emerged as a leading writer of her time and founded a school for girls that survives even today. |
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