Learn about the history of the women’s movement in India, women’s political participation in anti-colonial resistance spearheaded by Mahatma Gandhi, and gender and activism in contemporary India.

Maina Chawla Singh is a scholar-in-residence at American University, where her current research includes a study of Indians in the French Caribbean Islands. Singh has published several scholarly articles and is the author of Being Indian, Being Israeli: Migration, Ethnicity and Gender in the Jewish Homeland and Gender, Religion, and ‘Heathen Lands’: American Missionary Women in South Asia (1860s–1940s).