The Indian National Movement created a new social and political space for women. This book traces the engagement of women with nationalism in a relatively lesser known region, the United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, as Uttar Pradesh was called prior to 1950. Ironically, despite the wealth of material on the national movement in the UP, there is very little on the role played by the women of this region. The general assumption is that, in terms of the women’s ...
For a long time the provincial autonomy phase of the Indian national movement was largely ignored by historians. However, it is now becoming increasingly evident that vital changes in power equations occurred during that period. Starting from this premise, Visalakshi Menon provides a detailed account of the Congress Ministry of 1937-39 in the United Provinces and explores the internal dynamics of an organization performing the dual function of a government in ...