Art historian and curator Seema Bhalla explores the journey of courtesans in India in this book of essays, dispelling myths ...

Among them is Tarabai Shinde, a 19th-century feminist thinker ... being one of the first in India to openly challenge societal norms and advocate for women’s rights. She worked with social ...

For centuries, archaeology was more like treasure hunting — a kind of cowboy science where men travelled far and wide. By the mid-19th century, women began entering the field.

From the early 16th century to the 19th century, the Mughal Empire ruled large areas of the Indian subcontinent, which highly ...

Amazing pictures of 19th century Sydney show life for women in an era when it was a 'rough man's town' The never before seen photographs show how women of all classes were able to mix for the ...

In 19th-century Britain and North America, women were regarded as the ‘weaker sex’. Their ability to bear children gave rise to a feminine ideal based on marriage and motherhood, while their ...

According to the United Nations, women constitute merely 14% of the total 280,000 scientists, engineers and technologists in research development institutions in India. Despite the ground-breaking ...

After the dissolution of her arranged marriage to a doctor in the Indian ... a “battle over women’s access to public space” took place in the later decades of the 19th century, stemming ...

Jyotirao Phule was a social reformer, educator, and revolutionary thinker, who played a very important role in India’s social ...