Online Book launch, The Awakening of Indian Women by Kamaladevi Chattophadyay & Others.

In partnership with the Women’s Library @LSE.

Booking details are here.

Join an esteemed panel of historians and writers to celebrate the republication of an early anti-imperial feminist classic.

First published on the eve of the Second World War and, until now, buried in the archives, this unique document from the first global feminist movement is testimony to the deep historical roots of revolutionary feminist thought and action.

For Amia Srinivasan, Kamaladevi’s The Awakening of Indian Women is “radical and visionary” and “deserves a place on feminist reading lists and in the wider transnationalist feminist imagination. Among other things, it is a potent reminder that feminism is not an invention or prerogative of the West.”

Pre-order your copy of Awakening now.

Panel members: 

Sumita Mukherjee, Associate Professor in Modern History, University of Bristol and author of Indian Suffragettes: Female Identities and Transnational Networks (2018). 

Kama Maclean, Professor of History in the South Asia Institute at the University of Heidelberg, Germany and author of A Revolutionary History of Interwar India (OUP 2015). 

Uditi Sen, Director of Liberal Arts and Associate Professor specialising in the History of South Asia at University of Nottingham. 

Rosalind Parr, Lecturer in Modern History, Glasgow Caledonian University and author of Citizens of Everywhere: Indian Women, Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism, 1920-1952 (2022). 

Chaired by Amina Yaqin, Associate Professor in World Literatures and Publishing, University of Exeter, and author of Gender, Sexuality and Feminism in Pakistani Urdu Writing (2022). 

Listen to a panel and chat with the publisher, D-M Withers, Kirsti Bohata, Swansea University, Elizabeth English, and Edith England from Cardiff Met University about the importance of republishing this landmark in lesbian and queer literature.

Participants of the Amgueddfa Cymru Proud Writing workshops read from their queer writings.

Watch the short film, “Sally Leapt Out of A Window Last Night” and chat with director Tracy Spottiswoode.

Booking information here.