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Are women freer in free India?: An essay by Begum Hamid Ali from the HT archives

HT’s Republic@75 special: The doors are open. 'We have only to take our rights to freedom equally with men,’ writes Ali, who served on the Planning Commission.
At a protest in Madras in 1945. Women emerged from their homes in large numbers to participate in the Swadeshi movement, which acted as a turning point in this respect, in India. (Wikimedia)
At a protest in Madras in 1945. Women emerged from their homes in large numbers to participate in the Swadeshi movement, which acted as a turning point in this respect, in India. (Wikimedia)

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