Forbes Collection: publications and papers relating to Indian women and women s studies collected by Prof Geraldine Hancock Forbes (b 1943) on which her 'Women in modern India' (Cambridge 1996) was based Unspecified

Sanger, Margaret, 1879-1966

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Margaret Louise Higgins was born in Corning, New York, on September 15, 1879, the sixth of eleven children and the third of four daughters born to Anne Purcell Higgins and Michael Hennessey Higgins, a stone mason. Her two elder sisters worked to supplement the family income, and financed her education at Claverack College, a private coeducational preparatory school in the Catskills. After leaving Claverack, Higgins took a job teaching first grade to immigrant children, but decided after a short ...

Pandit, Vijaya Lakshmi, 1900-1990

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Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (18 August 1900 – 1 December 1990) was an Indian diplomat and politician who was the first female elected to 6th Governor of Maharashtra and 8th President of the United Nations General Assembly. Hailing from a prominent political family, her brother Jawaharlal Nehru was the first Prime Minister of independent India, her niece Indira Gandhi the first female Prime Minister of India and her grand-nephew Rajiv Gandhi was the sixth Prime Minister of India. Pandit was sent to Lon...

Ramabai, Pandita, 1858-1922

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Pandita Ramabai Sarasvati (23 April 1858 – 5 April 1922), was a women's rights & education activist, a pioneer in the education and emancipation of women in India, and a social reformer. She was the first woman to be awarded the titles of Pandita as a Sanskrit scholar and Sarasvati after being examined by the faculty of the University of Calcutta. She was one of the ten women delegates of the Congress session of 1889. In the late 1890s, she founded Mukti Mission at Kedgaon village, forty miles e...

Baig, Tara Ali.

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National Indian Association (active 1865-1984)

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Gandhi, Indira

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Cousins, Margaret E., 1878-1954

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1908 founder of the Irish Women's Franchise League; 1916 teacher at a theosophical college in Madanapalle; 1917 editor of Stri Dharma (journal of the Women's India Association); 1917-c 1940 worked for women's suffrage in India; 1936-1937 president of the standing committee of the All India Women's Conference. Epithet: social reformer and women's activist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001477.0x...

Rathbone, Eleanor F.

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Tata, Mehrbai, Lady

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Forbes, Geraldine Hancock, 1943-....

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Ghose, Aurobindo

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Epithet: Sri British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001244.0x000040 ...

National Indian Association, Calcutta Ladies Branch (active 1865-1984)

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Mazumdar, Shudha

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Benade, Miriam McGaw, 1895-1978

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1912-1960s Presbyterian missionary in Lahere, Punjab, India. Epithet: Presbyterian missionary in India British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001394.0x00019c Dr. James Martin and Miriam Benade were Presbyterian missionaries in Lahore, Punjab, India (later West Pakistan) from about 1912 until the mid-1960s. Dr. Benade was born on March 12, 1889, in Punxsutawney, Pennsyl...

Nimbkar, Krishnabai

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Chattopadhyaya, Kamaladevi, 1903-1988

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Epithet: social reformer British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001477.0x0000a5 ...

Rāẏa, Līlā 1900-1968

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All Bengal Women's Union

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Bhattacharya, Kalyani

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Epithet: Kalyani British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001394.0x0001c0 ...

Mehta, Hansa, 1897-

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Bhartiya Grameen Mahila Sangh

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Shah Nawaz, Begum

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Epithet: Begum British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001512.0x0000a7 ...

Women's Indian Association

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Woodsmall, Ruth Frances, 1883-1963

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Ruth Woodsmall Ruth Frances Woodsmall was born in Atlanta, Georgia, September 20, 1883, the youngest of three children of Harrison S. Woodsmall, a lawyer and teacher, and Mary Elizabeth Howes, an art teacher. She grew up in Indianapolis, Indiana and attended local schools. She received her A.B. from the University of Nebraska in 1905 and her A.M. from Wellesley in 1906. From 1906 to 1917 she worked as a high school English teacher and principal in Nevada and Colorado. B...

National Council of Women In India (active 1828-1944)

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Das, Bina

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Rao, Kamalabai Lakshman

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Naidu, Sarojini

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Epithet: Creator of Mss Eur A95 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001440.0x000057 ...

Ali Aruna Asaf 1909-1996

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1991 received the Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding. Epithet: nee Ganguli, political activist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001394.0x00006a ...

Saroj Nalini Dutt Memorial Association

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Gandhi, Mohandas Karamchand, Mahatma

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Epithet: Mahatma British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001477.0x0003df ...

Hindu Widows Home Association

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Sen, Mrinalini

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Zenana Missionary Society (active 1884-1988)

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All India Women's Conference

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