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The purdah system became weaker as the Mughal empire declined. [26] However, there were cases of women often becoming prominent in the fields of politics, literature, education, and religion also during this period. [12] Razia Sultana (1205–1240) became the only woman monarch to have ever ruled Delhi.
Savitribai Phule (pronunciation ⓘ; 3 January 1831 – 10 March 1897) was an Indian teacher, social reformer, and poet who was the first female teacher in India. [5] Along with her husband, Jyotiba Phule, in Maharashtra, she played a vital role in improving women's rights in India.
Colleges and secondary education open to women. [98] India The first college open to women: Bethune College (the first female graduate in 1883). [71] 1880: United Kingdom First four women gain BA degrees at the University of London, the first women in the UK to be awarded degrees. [178] Australia Universities open to women. [180] Belgium
British education became firmly established in India with the founding of missionary schools during the 1820s. [ 46 ] Macaulay succeeded in replacing Persian with English as the administrative language through the English Education Act 1835 , which established English as the medium of instruction and promoted the training of English-speaking ...
The status of women in India has been subject to many great changes over the past few millennia. With a decline in their status from the ancient to medieval times ...
Muthulakshmi looked after this child while she was still a medical student. Even in that time she managed to volunteer in girls homes, study Indian history, listen to lectures of Theosophical Society, meet personalities like Annie Besant and Sarojini Naidu and began to write in a magazine called India and give Tamil translation to English ...
The history of feminism in India can be divided into three phases: the first phase, beginning in the mid-19th century, initiated when reformists began to speak in favour of women rights by making reforms in education and customs involving women; [2] [3] the second phase, from 1915 to Indian independence, when Gandhi incorporated women's ...
Anandi bai Joshi was born Yamuna, in Kalyan, on 31 March 1865, the fifth of nine children. [2] [3] She was raised in a Marathi Chitpavan Brahmin family [4] [5] [page needed] As was the practice at that time and due to pressure from her mother, she was married at the age of nine to Gopal rao Joshi, a widower almost twenty years her senior. [6]