1930s Quote by Ash Sarkar

Georgian England was very radical; there were all these new revolutionary ideas, and I think women had more freedom than they did later on.

— Marion Bailey

When the British came to Ibo land, for instance, at the beginning of the 20th century, and defeated the men in pitched battles in…

— Chinua Achebe

There is tension all over the country. The party in Bengal has done substantial work. They have eliminated a few officers. The Englishmen are…

— Bhagat Singh

Repressive measures taken by the British government to quell Indian nationalist agitation meant that expansions of the franchise regarding legislative councils were met by…

— Ash Sarkar

Interestingly, what the bourgeois women's groups in India wanted to do in the nationalist period is to have the peasant women essentially follow them...…

— Vijay Prashad

The Indian struggle is not anti-British, it is anti-exploitation, anti-foreign rule, not anti-foreigners.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Women had always fought for men, and for their children. Now they were ready to fight for their own human rights. Our militant movement…

— Emmeline Pankhurst

There is not a revolution that succe Women were everywhere in the revolution. Women participated in it, and many women were killed.

— Nawal El Saadawi

Resolved, that the women of this nation in 1876, have greater cause for discontent, rebellion and revolution than the men of 1776.

— Susan B. Anthony

“India had a very long independence movement. It started in 1886, [with] the first generation of Western-educated Indians. They were all liberals. They followed…

— Meghnad Desai

Could women's liberation ever be a revolutionary movement, not rhetorically but on the ground?

— Andrea Dworkin

I must fight unto the death the unholy attempt to impose British methods and British institutions on India.

— Mahatma Gandhi