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MIND MAP




               WOMEN WRITE ABOUT WOMEN                                          CASTE AND SOCIAL
               REFORM

               Muslim women like Begums of Bhopal
               promoted education for women.                                    Christian Missionaries set
               up school for
               Begum Rockeya Sakhawat Hossain started schools                   tribal groups and lower
               caste children.
               for Muslim girls in Patna and Calcutta.
                                                                                Social reformers criticized
               caste inequality.
                Indian women began to go to universities by 1880.               Paramhans Mandli was
               founded in 1840 in
               Some of them became doctors and teachers.                        Bombay to work for
               abolition of case systems.

               Pandita Ramabai founded the home for widows.                     By the second half of 19
               century the lower
               She wrote about miserable lives of upper class                   castes began to demand
               or equality and
               Hindu women.                                                     justice.

               Jawaharlal Nehru and Subhash Chandra Bose supported
               equality and freedom for women.                                  DEMAND OR EQUALITY
               AND JUSTICE


                                                                                Satnami Movement in
                                                                                central India
                                                                                was founded by Ghasidas.

                                                                                Haridas questioned
                                                                                Brahmanical texts that
                                                                                supported caste system.

                                                                                Shri Narayan Guru
                                                                                proclaimed the idea of
                                                                                unity and equality.
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