Bharat Stree Mahamandal

Bharat Stree Mahamandal

Bharat Stree Mahamandal first women's organisation in India founded by Sarala Devi Chaudhurani in Allahabad in 1910. One of the primary goals of the organisation was to promote female education, which at that time was not well developed. The organisation opened several offices in Lahore (then part of undivided India), Allahabad, Delhi, Karachi, Amritsar, Hyderabad, Kanpur, Bankura, Hazaribagh, Midnapur and Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) to improve the situation of women all over India.

References

* [http://nrcw.nic.in/index2.asp?sublinkid=461 Women Activists]
* [https://www.vedamsbooks.com/no27401.htm Early Feminists of Colonial India]


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