Feminism and the History of the Indian Nation

Abstract

Perhaps the single most important history of the women's movement in India, Radha Kumar's The History of Doing is comprehensive, descriptive, and analytical. Kumar takes the reader from the first attempts to include women in the nationalist agitation against colonialism to 1990 when, after decades of struggle, the feminist movement stands embattled as right wing politics begin to claim center stage, using many of the tools developed by the feminist movement. The History of Doing works successfully at two levels. First, it illuminates the depth and variation in women's resistance in India since the