
India’s Suffragettes
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The Indian Women's Suffrage Movement Was Not Divided by Religion
The indian women's movement is quite different from the indian nationalist movement in not being divided by religion. So for any listeners who are aware of some of the history of indian nationalism, they might beaware that the inte national movement soon became beset by a religious separatism. O knos kind of feature of the partition of india into india, east and west pakistan. And the the votes that were introduced in india in 19 19 for this new parliament were divided along religious lines, men. But from its very inception an theindian women's suffrage movement was very clear that they didn't want religion to come into their constituency. They wanted to
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