1. The Indian Nationalist Movement and Gender Relations
It is commonly mentioned that salt protests were successful become of women, 'for not only making salt, but sat openly at markets selling and buying it'. 16 The effectiveness behind the Ghandi march is that it gave women a common purpose. ... 'Sectarian strife' as it was coined, caused bloodshed throughout the new dominions and women took the full brunt. 18 Women became an easy target for both sides, and the alarmingly abduction statistics proves this. The India government claimed that '33,000 Hindu and Sikh women were abducted through riots, whereas Pakistan rebutte...
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