Bhagwati Bhola Nauth
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Bhagwati Bhola Nauth | |
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 Indian suffragists on the Women's Coronation Procession of 1911, including Nauth on the far left | |
| Born | c. 1882 Lahore, British India |
| Occupation(s) | social reformer, activist and suffragist |
Bhagwati Bhola Nauth (born c. 1882) was an Indian social reformer, activist and suffragist.[1]
Nauth was born in Lahore, British India, around 1882. She married Major Bhola Nauth,[2] a doctor who worked in the Indian Medical Service, and they had two sons.[3] She lived in England from 1908.[2]
Nauth was the honorary secretary of the Indian Women’s Educational Fund was also a member of the Eastern League.[4]
On 17 June 1911, the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU)[5] organised a Women's Coronation Procession, using the coronation of King George V to demand the vote for white women.[6][7] Jane Cobden and Lolita Roy gathered an Indian contingent in advance of the procession, forming 'part of the 'Imperial contingent'. Nauth was among the group of Indian women who marched.[8]
The women were invited to attend to appear "exotic"[9] and to demonstrate "the strength of support for women's suffrage throughout the Empire."[5] Their "beautiful dresses" (saris) drew admiring glances from the public.[10] Nauth has been identified as one of the women marching with an appliquéd banner in a photograph from the procession.[11][12]
Nauth was later involved in petitioning the British government for the enfranchisement of Indian women.[3][13]
Her date of death is unknown.
References
- ↑ Khan, Mariam (27 February 2023). "Forgotten Indian women who dedicated their lives to fighting for women's rights". My London. Archived from the original on 10 March 2025. Retrieved 28 January 2025.
- 1 2 Mukherjee, Sumita (16 April 2018). Indian Suffragettes: Female Identities and Transnational Networks. Oxford University Press. pp. 33–35. ISBN 978-0-19-909370-0.
- 1 2 Crawford, Elizabeth (11 February 2018). "The black and Asian women who fought for a vote". BBC News. Archived from the original on 19 March 2025. Retrieved 28 January 2025.
- ↑ Hoque, Nikhat (3 February 2019). "Meet 7 Indian Suffragettes Of The British Suffrage Movement". Feminism in India. Archived from the original on 19 January 2025. Retrieved 28 January 2025.
- 1 2 "Lolita Roy and Indian Suffragettes, Coronation Procession - Museum of London". Google Arts & Culture. Retrieved 28 January 2025.
- ↑ Mukherjee, Sumita (30 October 2017). "Black History Month: Diversity and the British female Suffrage movement". The Fawcett Society. Retrieved 28 January 2025.
- ↑ "Have Women of Color Been Written Out of The Women's Movement ?". Google Arts & Culture. Archived from the original on 11 March 2025. Retrieved 28 January 2025.
- ↑ Perry, Sarah (1 October 2020). Essex Girls: For Profane and Opinionated Women Everywhere. Serpent's Tail. ISBN 978-1-78283-821-0.
- ↑ Santos, Inês (17 March 2021). "On the trail of the Indian suffragettes – Dr Sumita Mukherjee, Associate Professor in Modern History at the University of Bristol". Womanthology. Retrieved 28 January 2025.
- ↑ Raw, Louise (12 July 2020). "Standing on the shoulders of giantesses: working-class women suffragettes: Louise Raw". Woman's Place UK. Archived from the original on 5 March 2025. Retrieved 28 January 2025.
- ↑ "Plinth to mark centenary of women's suffrage includes South Asian and Jewish women". Religious Reader. 6 February 2018. Archived from the original on 12 February 2025. Retrieved 28 January 2025.
- ↑ Cowman, Krista (31 July 2024). The Routledge Companion to British Women's Suffrage. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 978-1-351-36571-0.
- ↑ Mukherjee, Sumita (4 July 2022). "Mobility, race and the politicisation of Indian students in Britain before the Second World War". History of Education. 51 (4): 560–577. doi:10.1080/0046760X.2021.2010815. hdl:1983/b1e10f74-5e23-400f-8552-e5ecb8ef6eb7. ISSN 0046-760X.