activists Agarwal Aligarh Allahabad argued arrested Aruna Asaf Ali Arya associated Azad Benares Bengal Bhagat Singh Brahmin British charkha civil disobedience colonial Congress contribution culture Dainik Jagran district Dixit domestic sphere economic elite women emphasised encouraged example father female foreign cloth freedom Gandhi gender Hindi Hindu household husband ibid ideas ideology important imprisoned independence Indian National Indian women issues jail Kamala Kanpur Kayastha khadi Kumari Lucknow magazine Mahadevi Verma Mahila male mother motherhood motherland Muslim narratives nationalist activities nationalist movement Nehru non-violent ordinary middle-class women Pandey picketing poem political activities PP.Hin.B Prasad public domain public sphere purdah Quit India movement Rani reforms respondents revolutionary role sacrifice salt satyagraha segregation sisters social society Sridevi Sridevi Tewari Stree struggle symbolic tion Transcript of interview United Provinces Urmilla Uttar Pradesh Verma Western wife wives woman women’s activities women’s education women’s lives women’s movement women’s participation