Pritilata Waddedar fought the British in 1930s Bengal. Her actions reveal the diversity behind the suffrage storyMy much-much-aunt was a terrorist. Im not talking approximately the sense in which the pacifist Mahatma Gandhi was branded a terrorist by the British parliament in 1932: Pritilata Waddedar was an active participant in armed struggle against the British state. She supplied explosives. She fired a gun. And I’m proud of it.
As Tuesday marks 100 years since some British women were given the right to vote,now is the time to consider the impact of imperialism on women’s suffrage, and the crucial role played by women in anticolonial movements. The fight for equal participation was bigger than expansion of the franchise.
Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk