Foremothers: Neera Desai (b. 1925)

Authors: Forbes, Geraldine1; Thakkar, Usha2

Source: Gender & History, Volume 17, Number 2, August 2005 , pp. 492-501(10)

Publisher: Blackwell Publishing

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Abstract:

Neera Desai (b. 1925), best known as the founder of India's first Women's Studies Research Unit, also wrote the first analytical history of Indian women. In Woman in Modern India, published in 1957, the central concern is women's lack of opportunity and progress from the Vedic period to the 1950s. A college student at the time of the Quit India movement in 1942, Neera belongs to a generation of women who entered the professions in newly independent India and continue to ask the hard questions about gender and power.

Document Type: Research article

DOI: 10.1111/j.0953-5233.2006.00390.x

Affiliations: 1: State University of New York at Oswego 2: Honorary Director of the Institute of Research on Gandhian Thought and Rural Development, Manibhavan Gandhi Sangrahalaya, Mumbai, India

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