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Hello and welcome to the History Extra podcast from BBC History Magazine, Britain's best-selling history magazine.

I'm Ellie Cawthorne. For 30 years between 1917 and 1947, women in India campaigned for the vote.

The University of Bristol historian Samita Mukherjee has spent much of her career from these Indian suffragettes and how their fight for the vote connected both to India's wider struggle for independence and women's

suffrage movements across the world. I spoke to her to find out more. Thank you so much for

joining me today in our studio to talk to me about your research into Indian suffragettes. So for our listeners

who might be entirely new to this topic, could you give us a very, very brief introduction to

the story of women's suffrage in India? Sure, and thanks for having me. So the Indian suffrage

movement, or the movement for female vote in India,

started in 1917, and it ran all the way until Indian independence in 1947. It was a

national movement, a movement that spanned across the whole of British India. So India was a colony

of the British Empire at this time and was until

1947 when it was partitioned to India and eastern West Pakistan. So it was only in 1919 that a

democratic assembly or kind of parliament was introduced in India. And so it was only at that time that there could even be a movement for female suffrage.

So at the very inception of a parliament in India from the idea in 1917, there was a

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