Volume 1, Issue 10

Women Liberation: Reflections of Indian Press on Women in Dravidian and Leftist Movements in Tamilnadu, 1928-1947

Author

Dr.V.Venkatraman, Ph.D., D.Litt., Principal & Head Research Centre in History Rajapalayam Rajus’ College Rajapalayam, India

Abstract

Abstract: Indian Women fought with true spirit and undaunted courage and faced several tortures, exploitations and hardships to earn social and political freedom for Indians. They joined the Indian national movement belonged to educated and elite families, as well as those from the rural areas and form all walk of social life, all castes, religions and communities women of Madras Presidency especially from Tamil province were actively involved not only in the national movement but also in the social and communist movements in the virulent manner. The press and political literature which changed their attitude according to the needs of the time could develop them. The women folk started gaining importance in the social and communist movements in Tamilnadu

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