Sulochana Dongre

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{{short description|Indian activist and feminist}}
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'''Sulochana Dongre''', also known as '''Sulochanabai Dongre''', was an Indian activist and [[Feminism|feminist]]. She was a prominent advocate for [[birth control]] and female emancipation.<ref>{{cite web |author=Suchitra |title=Sulochanabai Dongre: The Woman Who Advocated Birth-Control In Dalit Feminism |url=https://feminisminindia.com/2019/12/10/sulochanabai-dongre-woman-birth-control-dalit-feminism/ |website=Feminism in India |publisher=Feminism in India |accessdate=6 March 2020}}</ref>

== Biography ==
During the 1930s and 40s, Dongre became a notable advocate for female emancipation. Initial affiliated with the [[All India Women's Conference]], Dongre - along with other Dalit leaders - broke away from the conference, feeling it was too heavily dominated by the upper castes. She would go on to become a leader of the [[All India Depressed Classes Women Congress]], and chaired a large-scale conference held by the congress in 1942.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zaz1VFh5t2MC&q=Sulochanabai+Dongre&pg=PA57|title=Concrete Steps By Indian Industry On Affirmative Action For Scheduled Castes & Scheduled Tribes|date=2008|publisher=Gautam Book Center|isbn=978-81-87733-33-1|language=en}}</ref> That same year, Dongre (along with Shantabai Dani) spoke before a crowd of 25,000 women at the women's conferences of an [[All India Scheduled Caste Federation|All-India Scheduled Caste Federation]] meeting in [[Nagpur]].<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Arya|first1=Sunaina|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RVauDwAAQBAJ&q=Sulochanabai+Dongre&pg=PT92|title=Dalit Feminist Theory: A Reader|last2=Rathore|first2=Aakash Singh|date=2019-09-09|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-1-000-65148-5|language=en}}</ref><ref>Paik, Shailaja (2016). ''Dalit Women's Education in Modern India: Double Discrimination''. Routledge Research on Gender in Asia Series. New York: Routledge, 2014. {{ISBN|978-0-415-49300-0}}.</ref> Dongre also chaired the [[Dalit Mahila Federation]], the last Dalit feminist group to form before [[Indian Independence Act 1947|Indian Independence]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://feminisminindia.com/2019/12/10/sulochanabai-dongre-woman-birth-control-dalit-feminism/|title=Sulochanabai Dongre: The Woman Who Advocated Birth-Control In Dalit Feminism {{!}} #IndianWomenInHistory|last=Suchitra|date=2019-12-09|website=Feminism In India|language=en-US|access-date=2020-03-06}}</ref>

Notably, some sources describe Dongre as the first Indian leader to call for nation-wide access to birth control, a measure she supported.<ref name=":0" />

Dongre's biography and exploits were included in [[Urmila Pawar|Urmila Pawar's]] 1989 work ''[[We Also Made History]]''.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/W/bo17108219.html|title=We Also Made History}}</ref>

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